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Canadian Alliance BQ plotted to make Day PM in 2000
December 3, 2008 - 4:29pm
Just saw this bombshell revelation in the globe. It turns out that back in 2000 the Canadian Alliance the PC Party and the BQ had cooked up a secret deal whereby if they got enough seats they would form a government headed by Stockwell Day.
This is JUICY!
lol. The BQ are awesome! They'll work with anyone!
ETA: I love how it's written like a form letter. How many of these are there floating around on Parliament Hill? You'd think the MPs would have better things to do.
I don't think it really matters. Defending the deal with the Bloc is the worst possible posture for the Liberals and NDP. They need to focus the issue on - you guessed it - the economy. The opposition's focus needs to be that the country is in recession, the government has no plan to deal with it and is trying to avoid facing its democratic comeuppance in Parliament.
As soon as the opposition lets the debate shift to any issue other than the economy and Harper's antics it loses.
The obvious truth is that all of the parties look out for the own interest first and foremost and are willing to shed their so-called principles whenever it suits them politically. All the bluster about who the Bloc is sleeping with is just noise.
Yeesh and people have the nerve to complain about Dion. Day as PM? I don't know whether to laugh my ass off or cry at that little historical tidbit.
I was watching Question Period and Stockwell flat out denied ever seeing it, or being part of it. It was not signed. Who drafted that agreement?
I have written draft memos that have gone no where. I have written Memorandum of Settlements that were never agreed to and therefore not signed. Just because I can print them off years later, doesn't mean the other party agreed to it or even seen it.
Unless it is signed it means nothing.
This is what I think is counterproductive for the Opposition - to again focus on the issues chosen by the Conservatives. I realize your point is that the media are the actors here, but the more the conversation is focused on anything besides the economy the better for the government.
This news will hopefully help to deflate the passions of the average outraged Conservative, but sofun on the whole is right. I've talked to several solid NDPers today and they still haven't got the memo about what was in the fiscal update. They think that this effort to throw Harper out is just a power grab and expressed reservations.
It may be too late, but the NDP needs to make two things very clear:
1) The rules of our democratic system are crystal clear: you have to have the confidence of the house to rule this country.
2) The Conservatives were proposing gutting $2 billion from government spending and selling off $2.3 billion of government assets including crown corporations in one year with no details and have never suggested otherwise. The other stuff they have recanted on and the public is more aware about those issues anyways, but (most importantly for the Conservatives) these issues, with the exception of political financing, are no longer making headlines.