Posted in Politics on Oct 30th, 2007
In the minds of some, the throne speech conjured up a time-buying strategy that Canadians “didn’t want an election.” And in the minds of others, that strategy couldn’t have been more misguided.
Later today the holdouts will learn of the fate they were warned about; that to have waited will be worse, much worse, than minimizing [...]
Posted in Politics on Oct 26th, 2007
I was in the House last Wednesday when we learned the reason Mr. Harper wouldn’t be paying Mme Jean a visit anytime soon had less to do with differences in policy, but rather that Canadians apparently don’t want an election.
Imagine, the criteria for having an election is not whether need one, but if we want [...]
Posted in Politics, Public Opinion on Oct 15th, 2007
Last week we were reminded about how accurate aggregate polling can be. The overall percentage of the popular vote in the Ontario provincial election was bang on to what polls were saying going into the final days of the campaign.
And so it’s no wonder, as we head into a most interesting week ahead, that pent-up, [...]
Posted in Politics on Oct 9th, 2007
The minute – no actually the second – I heard John Tory speak the words faith based school funding, I immediately thought of the decade-old Hunt-Wesson fiasco in which the ever popular brand of Big John beans was translated, without testing, for the Quebec market as Gros Jos.
Loosely translated, for those who don’t know, the [...]