I say the "coming month or so!" with an exclamation mark because, of course, an election campaign will be unfolding along with the now normal retail madness associated with Christmas (should that be xmas or the holiday season?).
So shopping frenzy and power dreaming for a couple of political parties is on the agenda for the next little while, nice combination.
Since the writ fell yesterday the momentum has been beginning its slow upward spiral. Harper pronouncing on gay marriage again. I hope this is just to please the Reform dinosaurs tucked away in the folds of the Conservatives outdated and reactionary image. I think this is unsettling and confirms, for the time being, my belief that the new Conservatives are nothing more than ideologues with thoughts firmly planted in the 19th century. I guess Harper can't help it. His righteousness is hard to contain.
Wonder what MacKay thinks about it.
Wonder whether it matters what MacKay thinks. If anyone should know he should since he bends with the wind. I do love his outbursts of moral outrage though. What could David Orchard be thinking of them. MacKay has followed the honoured political tradition of publicly indicating he can not be trusted - I mean, of course, the MacKay Orchard Deal that actually put MacKay in as the leader of the defunct Progressive Conservatives and which MacKay then systematically set out to break. So we at least know what MacKay is.
Boy, talk about integrity, oops I forgot this is politics and political integrity is a real oxymoron and I don't mean that as a joke - it just is. At some level politics requires compromises and integrity means being honesty, trustworthiness, fairness, etc.. The 2 concepts don't fit easily together.
Today, PM PM announced Marc Garrneau as a Liberal star candidate, Canada's John Glenn sort of, eh. At least from my perspective Garrneau is starting off saying the right things. The country does face some very interesting problems if it is going maintain its standard of living. One of these problems is not the sponsorship scandal.
Does it matter what Layton is doing? I'm pretty sure it doesn't, least right now. The media will cover what the NDP does but it is of only any real concern in that it can sap Liberal support. Until this party, federally not provincially, moves into the real world they will remain an interesting footnote.
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