Since when does a faction of the Cons get to declare that Denise Savoie should stand down as a candidate for speaker for their own benefit?And if Lee Richardson and his supporters were genuinely concerned about Andrew Scheer’s inexperience (rather than…
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Accidental Deliberations: On dominance
Meanwhile, the obvious potential for growth in NDP support figures to have some rather important effects on the Cons’ strategy as well. After all, their current coalition of support left them little room for error even with a split opposition – and if …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Blogging may be on hold for the week, but columnizing isn’t. Here’s my latest, on the Cons’ disaster response and the broader question of what we expect from our elected leaders in a time of crisis.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Light blogging ahead
Off to a couple of undisclosed locations for the next week, with little to no blogging in the meantime. But let’s note one point worth watching as Parliament reconvenes.While I don’t think there’s much room for dispute that the Cons have tried to move …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading.- John Allemang’s profile of Jack Layton is well worth a read in full. But after a campaign where any show of support can easily be written off as a matter of party scripting, it’s well worth noting the spontane…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On consensus-building
Kady’s post on the composition and chairing of committees notes that there’s some risk the Cons could try to use their majority to rewrite the rules. But it’s worth pointing out that there doesn’t look to be much precedent for that step in recent decad…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- thwap is among a few bloggers to rightly slam the Cons’ obscene message to flooded Quebeckers that the only way they can hope for help is if somebody stands to profit from it:Toews (is) justifying removing Canadian F…
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