The Lib take on NDP policy a year ago at what was supposed to be their policy renewal conference:
At the time, those were the two big, important, structural differences in policy — the only two, if I recall correctly, although readers are welcome to …
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Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.
– The Halifax Chronicle Herald pushes back against the Cons’ and Libs’ anti-Bloc witch-hunt:
For partisan reasons, involvement with the Bloc has become a game of political football. The Tories and Grits feel …
Accidental Deliberations: On improved positions
Last week, I noted the top-line results from Angus Reid’s latest federal polling. But perhaps even more important than the stability in Canada’s party polling numbers is the question of which party is living up to the expectations underlying its popula…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Still feigned indignation
At the very least, the media finally seems to have picked up on the reality that all Canadian national parties include some former Bloc members and/or sovereigntists in their ranks. But that leads to the next obvious problem: that it’s scolding the NDP…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On broken systems
Let’s add one more to the list of theories as to how the other parties’ pearl-clutching over interim NDP leader Nycole Turmel may actually play to the NDP’s advantage – and this time with a far more immediate effect.
Keep in mind that the last nationa…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: What might have been
Wilf Day offers up one what-might-have-been scenario based on proportional representation. But as one astute observer pointed out at the NDP’s Vancouver convention, there’s another alternate set of possibilities which wouldn’t have required a different…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- L. Aaron Wright nicely contrasts the fabricated hysteria over Nycole Turmel against the choices of the Libs and Cons:Where was the outrage when Stephen Harper tried to recruit Mario Dumont of the ADQ in Quebe…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On equalization
One more note on today’s fund-raising news which is best seen in Alice’s historical quarterly data.For 2011 Q2, total fund-raising for the NDP, Libs, Bloc and Greens was $7,918,876.12 – while for the Cons, it was $8,205,078.88. Which looks to mark a lo…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Not quite comparable
Alice notes that all three official parties in Parliament amassed record fund-raising totals during the course of this spring’s election campaign. But it’s worth adding one asterisk to the raw numbers.While both the Cons and the NDP mostly raised money…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On building opportunities
There’s no doubt that the trumped-up story about Nycole Turmel’s one-time Bloc membership reflects the inevitable first real pile-on against the NDP in its new role as Official Opposition. But it’s worth noting that the NDP also has an opportunity to t…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: An accidental opportunity
This morning, I theorized that the political fortunes of the NDP and the Libs will make for an interesting test case on the relative importance of leadership politics and party planning. But let’s note part of the reason why Rae holds a relatively stro…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On comparative advantages
Naturally, Jack Layton’s leave of absence has raised plenty of speculation as to what will happen on Canada’s opposition benches over the summer (and perhaps beyond). But Tim Powers hints at what may be the most interesting question to watch in the mon…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Parliament In Review: June 22, 2011
The second-last day of debates in this spring’s session dealt mostly with Bruce Hyer’s motion on small business. But lest anybody think there would be agreement on the details of an issue where every party supported the motion itself (resulting in a ra…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Compare and contrast
One party’s response to a limited amount of Parliamentary resources:“New Democrat MPs were responsible for 56 per cent of all private members’ motions, and 59 per cent of all private members’ bills. Compared to other parties, that’s four times …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On stretches
Shorter Barbara Yaffe:Of course we can find good news for Liberals – just as long as we get creative in defining the term!Update: Actually, there’s a serious point to be made here. While it’s disingenuous enough to conflate the B.C. and Quebec Libs wit…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Signs of decay
I’m not sure whether the Libs think their base will be more fired up by their clinging to the trappings of past power to prevent newly-elected MPs from doing their jobs, or by their criticism of competitors for having the nerve to think about the futur…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Still hard at work
In case there was any doubt whether the NDP’s hard-earned reputation as the most productive caucus in Ottawa would change as the party moved into its new role as Official Opposition, LEGISInfo provides a handy comparison for the bills introduced in the…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Andrew Jackson points out and sums up a Statistics Canada study showing how much possible revenue is lost to the underground economy:Statscan have produced interesting and important new estimates of the upper b…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Kept on track
Impolitical rightly points out that the Harper Cons are well on their way to implementing every single odious policy that was rightly labeled as unacceptable overreach when included in Deficit Jim Flaherty’s 2008 fiscal update. Now if only somebody had…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On self-defeating strategies
I’ve made the point when it comes to other issues. But apparently there’s a need to make a more general statement for the benefit of the Libs. So here goes:You won’t find an inch of viable political ground by proposing right-wing policies that Stephen …
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