Five months after the election of Canada’s first-ever NDP official opposition at the federal level, it’s now been declared conventional wisdom that the real opposition comes from provincial governments (who, last I checked, were limited in their abilit…
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Accidental Deliberations: Deep thought
I’m sure it’s utterly preposterous to even suggest that it’s theoretically possible that the Harper Cons might want to torch public money just for the sake of torching public money.
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If there’s any more important qualification for a Harper Con cabinet member than being described as “incredibly stupid” with a “colossal lack of judgment”, it’s a willingess to mislead the public.
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I know I appreciate when partisan hacks who declared the NDP could never become the Official Opposition then fought to keep it from happening offer their entirely sincere instructions as to how to how to build from here.
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Somehow, I’m sure this proves that the NDP can’t hope to hold its public support now that Jack Layton isn’t around to lead it into the next election.
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The Conservatives might stand a better chance being taken seriously in talking about health-care accountability if they hadn’t been the ones to end it.
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Nothing says open and accountable government like a little-known fiscal commission labouring in the shadows to decree what public services will get slashed and/or sold off. That is, unless it’s also timed to to override the results of an election.
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Anybody who sees the need to treat Amnesty International as an “adversary” has every reason to take a much closer look at whether they’re on the right side.
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I can think of a few appropriate introductions to a plan belatedly acknowledging the existence of a housing crisis. But proudly pointing to past programs which have evidently accomplished nothing isn’t one of them.
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The use of “library group” as a putdown says far more about the speaker than about the target.
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If there’s any good news in the report that it’s apparently impossible to keep corporate sponsorship off even the most political of public functions, it’s that it should be highly entertaining to see where the trend goes next. I for one look forward to…
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An environmental monitoring plan explicitly designed to improve the reputation of the industry involved is a thoroughly useless environmental monitoring plan.
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I know I can’t think of a higher priority for Canada at the moment than to declare war on citizenship.
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Boy, is it ever a good thing we have a stubborn, unaccountable majority government to help restore confidence in Canada’s economy.
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I won’t claim to have compiled a full list of criticisms of the Cons’ government. But I’m pretty sure that putting too many resources into environmental priorities would rank rather near the bottom.
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