Right now Liberals and Tories are getting warm around their collars because the major candidates for leadership of the NDP are supporting a special deal for the province of Quebec which locks in a permanent 25% of seats in the House no matter how small…
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Blunt Objects: Is the PLQ the Only Viable Opposition to Legault?
According to this Léger Marketing poll, well, yeah – they are.The results without Francoise Legault’s Mystery Party as an option has the PLQ leading the Parti Québécois, 31% to 26%, with Action Democratique at 16%, Québec Solidaire at 9%, and the P…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: The Just Crusade Against Quebec’s 25%
Fellow Liblogger Peter Wrightwater, who writes the blog Paper Dynamite Online, is going on something of a small crusade the last few days, attacking the apparent push, first by NDP leadership candidate Brian Topp, and now possibly by Liberal Leader Bob…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Quebec, and "how to" do simple projections.
Teddy here. A look at recent Quebec polls gave me an idea. The current polls looked good to me to do a simple projection.Projections, the way I do them (and I do note that I got closer to anyone else – seat by seat – in the last federal election) uses …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leadership 2012: The Week In Quotes
A few quotes worth noting from both candidates and non-candidates alike – feel free to suggest more in comments.Thomas Mulcair on his considerations in deciding whether to run:There’s an old saying that before you take the plunge, you have to make sure…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On clear preferences
At least a few pundits have theorized that the NDP might get pushed into a merger due to the desire of Quebec voters to see greater cooperation among parties opposing the Cons, as evidenced by their support for past coalitions and other short-term coop…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: The obvious response
We’ll learn soon whether the NDP’s federal council will choose a pure one-member, one vote leadership process. But it’s not hard to see the news that major Quebec unions aren’t interested in participating as formal affiliates as a major step in that di…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Chantal Hebert highlights how the Harper Cons are making a show of ignoring the needs of Quebec – and indeed making matters worse by the day:Persichilli’s recruitment also compounds what amounts to the party
Continue readingBlunt Objects: "Be bold, or get lost"
This is the apparent message that McGill political scientist Antonia Maioni told the recent Liberal Party summer caucus, a message I wholeheartedly endorse.You can read the whole thing here, though there are a couple of issues I have, and things I want…
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: With Persichilli Appointment, PM Harper Shows Quebec The Political Middle Finger, Embraces The Ethnic Vote
Quebec will not be a priority for the Conservative Canadian Prime Minister during the next four years of his comfortable majority rule. That was the message Stephen Harper sent with his appointment this week of Angelo Persichilli as the new director of…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Quebec Tuition Fees
In light of plans by the Charest government to increase tuition fees in Quebec by 75 percent over the next five years, Eric Martin and Simon Tremblay-Pepin have written a recent article on Quebec tuition fees. (The hyperlink I’ve provided is for the French-language version of the article, but I’m told that the English-language version […]
Continue readingCo2 Art: Bigotry within Our Borders
Canada’s chronic illness, the reciprocal bigotry infecting two of its three founding nations, is threatening to lurch into pandemic status under the Harper Conservative majority.
Until anglophone and francophone Canadians get over their apparently unc…
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Agreeing with Ezra Levant?
I happen to agree with Ezra Levant today. Only in part. Here’s a piece on Quebec’s desire to license journalists. The government of Quebec wants to licence journalists. Christine St-Pierre, its minister of culture and communications, thinks it just ain’t right there aren’t controls over people like me. Or, more to the point, people like […]
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Jack Layton Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.
– Adam Radwanski astutely recognizes that the outpouring of sympathy and grief following Jack Layton’s death speaks to the gap between what most political parties limit themselves to pursuing, and what many p…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your day.
– Leftdog points out that the Wall government’s regressive ideology is doing exactly what it usually does – resulting in workers losing ground as a result of stagnant wages and skyrocketing costs even as billions of d…
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Jack Layton: A Funeral Befitting A Great Canadian
It’s one of those solemn Canadian moments: A casket draped in the flag of Canada. A body lying in state on Parliament Hill. Canadian flag on the Peace Tower and public buildings across the country flying half-mast. Canadians, in their thousan…
Continue readingbastard.logic: Greatly Exaggerated Rumours, Jack Layton Edition
by matttbastard Michael Valpy addresses the current conventional wisdom that without Jack Layton, the NDP — and Canada’s left — is now doomed, doomed, DOOMED! Ahem. Sorry ’bout that. Now, where were we? Oh! Right. Valpy: When polls from the … Continue reading →
Continue readingbastard.logic: How Dare Jack Layton Make Canadians Feel Hopeful Again!
by matttbastard David J. Climenhaga, responding to National Post columnist Christie Blatchford’s now-infamous cranky, contrarian reaction to Canada’s outpouring of love and admiration for Socialist cur Taliban Jack Layton (HISSSSSSS!): [T]he offending column is far from the worst piece Blatchford has written, … Continue reading →
Continue readingImpolitical: Moving pieces in Quebec
MacPherson in the Gazette on the latest poll showing a new Francois Legault led party in the lead just ahead of the Liberals and with the PQ trailing in third:The Liberals need a stronger PQ to split the francophone opposition vote more evenly with Leg…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Tuition Has Increased 41% Since 1998
A recent cbc.ca article reports on plans by Quebec student groups to protest planned tuition hikes by the Charest government. Over a five-year period, Quebec’s Liberal government plans to increase tuition by roughly 75 percent. The article notes that tuition levels in Quebec are currently among the lowest in Canada. But as I’ve blogged about […]
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