I first realised that my old friend, the Liberal Party of Canada was on the path to recovery when they introduced the Supporter category early in 2012. Canadians were invited to formally become a supporter of the Liberal Party, and offered a vote in the leadership contest as an inducement.
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Not an Official Green Party Canada Site: Unite the progressives? Not much of a solution.
For several years there has been a scattered sense amongst some so-called `progressives` that the progressive left should merge, or co-operate electorally to keep the Conservative Party out of power. No less a Liberal luminary than Jean Chretien has called for a formal merger between the Liberals, the NDP, and
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Conservative Strategy to demonise the Courts?
The Liberal – Activist enemy? I have noticed something odd about the legislative agenda of the Conservative Party. Hey, I ain’t no lawyer, but it has struck me repeatedly that the Conservatives have been crafting legislation that would quickly be thrown out by the courts. It has struck others as
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: The Liberal Party Supporter category: Takach gets it. Does anybody else?
Yesterday I read a Toronto Star article entitled: How federal Liberals are using leadership race to get back in the game. The premise of the article is that the new supporter category is a game changer for the Liberal Party, and that this late entry into the data collection business
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Liberalist: The Liberal Party is FINALLY fixing their greatest failure.
The real world of electoral politics has been changing for over a decade. The Liberal Party of Canada has finally, at the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour noticed WHY they have all but disappeared. It boils down to the fundamentals of the new politics. Know the electorate well, and
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: The Rob Ford Story: It ain’t over by a long shot.
Rob Ford will probably win if there is a mayoral by-election, and the reasons I outline here should be obvious to all. It’s all about loyalty of the base vote, low turnouts, and the power of Ford electoral machine. Toronto progressives had better stop partying and get to work or they will be wondering W.T.F. happened on by-election EDay.
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: An Ill conceived Treaty with ZERO public debate…
Ever since my University days, I have been interested in Trade Theory, and the potential benefits of reduced trade barriers. Despite the strong currents opposing `globalisation`around the world, the last three decades have lifted literally billions of people out of abject poverty. Free capital flows have had enormously beneficial effects,
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Complete Game Changer for the Liberal Party: ‘Supporter’ votes for Leadership.
I am betting that very few people indeed have given much thought to the Liberal Party’s new ‘supporter’ category of membership. I guess I can see why. Most Liberals thrive on the ins and outs, the manoeuvering and machinations of Leadership politics. The media are even more enthralled, as can
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Elections Canada has some serious evidence this time: Things are looking VERY grim for Conservative Del Mastro
Oh boy, the timing could not have been better if M&M planned it. I posted a couple of days ago when the first M&M article was released, telling us that Del Mastro was being investigated for overspending, with a copy of a personal cheque he wrote to cover election expenses.
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Will the Northern Gateway Pipeline be the Conservatives ‘NEP’?
What do the Northern Gateway Project and the NEP have in common? I think everybody in Canada has heard of the NEP. In essence, Pierre Trudeau dreamed up a scheme which suppressed crude oil prices paid to producers in Alberta, in order to subsidise energy costs to central Canada. It
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Del Maestro in Hot Water? Has EC grown a pair?
CPC Dean Del Maestro got a rude wakeup call yesterday. It seems that Elections Canada is investigating his campaign spending for the 2008 because of a serendipitous small claims action launched by Holinshed Research Group, and Conservative friendly robodialling and call centre company. Here is a link to the story,
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Smokestack Expertise to be Abandoned? W.T.F. is Peter Kent thinking?
I am not very happy with Environment Canada in general, and Peter Kent in particular. I read this article this morning, and discovered that the Conservative Government has decided that they do not need to maintain expertise on toxic emmissions from smokestacks. In order to economise, they intend to eliminate
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Voter Outreach and `Killer Political Machines`: The Liberal Party`s answer to CIMS.
Right off the nut I will state that the Robo-Call scandal is indicative of the power and reach that the Conservative Party has acquired from a full decade of populating and expanding their voter profiling and targeting database, CIMS. The fact that Conservatives have used this information to criminally suppress
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Mechanics of Robo-Calling: Not a fluke or rogue campaigner. Someone who had ACCESS did these things.
It’s been awhile since I posted here. Quite awhile in fact. I make no bones about my dis-enchantment with the Green Party of Canada, and life is just too short to spend hours flogging a dead horse here. BUT with the breaking of the Robo-Call scandal, I am just so
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Green Party of Canada: An election result with mixed blessings
Elizabeth May has been cemented in place as the Green Party leader, BUT this means the Green Party is finished with the coming elimination of the per vote subsidy. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Green Party Canada: Advance Polls and the Youth Vote.
The Green Party of Canada has been surprisingly effective in this election, in some respects anyway. I have been a vocal critic of the Leadership of the Party, but given the bad choices made, they are doing the right things to win Elizabeth her Seat in SGI
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Green Party Canada: Week 2 of the 2011 Election
Not a terribly impressive week for the Green Party of Canada. The debate about the debate has mostly run it’s course, is there anything there to replace it?
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Green Party Starts to capitalise on Debate on Debates?
Green Party of Canada is starting to leverage the debate about the debate, and relate it back to policy, and electoral obectives.
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Green Party Canada: Week 1 of the 2011 Election Campaign
The Green Party is getting great publicity from their exclusion from the televised debate. They should have been ready to turn that into something electorally significant, instead of simply crowing over a bunch of free publicity. Here is how they can really benefit from this almost an election issue.
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Green Party Moment: Is it Time for Real debate on Nuclear Power?
Elizabeth May is hosting a joint news conference with Linda Keen, the Nuclear watchdog dismissed by the Conservatives for watching. Might be interesting, might actually be worthy of news coverage
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