Even a lowly blogger can get things right occasionally. I point to this post, where I continue my refusal to believe the Ignatieff foot-in-mouth meme. He does things for strategic purposes, in the ‘nation’ and ‘Qana’ cases to curry favour in Quebec, not out of accident. And It seems that the Conservatives are worried in might work.
…That proposal has prompted considerable debate and sharp divisions within the Liberal party, but remains popular in Quebec. Conservatives inside the province have raised concerns about being outflanked as the federalist party most open to Quebec. Many Tories also view federal decentralization as a wedge issue, and credit Harper’s vision of “open federalism” with helping put the party back on the map in seat-rich Quebec.
Because all majorities are completed in Quebec. I remain skeptical that one can be built in the short term believing instead that we in for a series of minority governments. At least if we have minority governments we do not have to live through more unbearable rounds of Constitutional debate, either from the Liberals or the Conservatives. Note to the wise, if you want to lessen federal spending in areas of provincial jurisdiction just stop doing it you don’t need a Constitutional amendment to do it. And if Canadians truly want the 1867 division of powers they will vote that way.
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Prince Michael has read his history. Divide et impera. Worked like a charm. Up to a point.
Note how a relatively small, but electorally-concentrated and determined group of voters can steal from a larger, more hard-working and self-sacrificing, but less electorally concentrated and less determined group of voters.
When non-earners can confiscate the property of earners, then laugh in their face and point to their 40% popular vote based on an electoral turnout of 60% in a province with 24% of the population, and yell “Scoreboard!”, then you are living in neither a just nor a free country.
This trend is deeply entrenched and is likely to continue until there is a messy crackup - and probably a war of secession - precipitated by a crisis involving public debt, taxes, transfer payments and ethnic chauvinism. It happened in a non-democratic, multi-ethnic, socialist state called Yugoslavia, and it can happen just as easily in the democratic, multi-ethnic, socialist state called Canada.
Posted by Anonymous | November 11, 2006 10:49 PM
Posted on November 11, 2006 22:49