Canadian Government to Collapse Today, No Really, I Promise This Time!

Energy-cost assistance

C-66: An act to authorize payments to provide assistance in relation to energy costs, housing energy consumption and public transit infrastructure, and to make consequential amendments to certain acts.
Would provide cheques of $125 or $250 to 3.1 million households to cover rising energy costs, at a total price tag of $565-million.
Received first reading in the House of Commons.

Whistle-blower protection

C-11: An act to establish a procedure for the disclosure of wrongdoings in the public sector, including the protection of persons who disclose the wrongdoings.
Would allow civil servants to alert the government of wrongdoing in their department without compromising their positions.
Passed by the House of Commons, awaiting Senate passage

Pot decriminalization

C-17: An act to amend the Contraventions Act and the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to make consequential amendments to other acts.
The marijuana decriminalization bill would impose fines instead of criminal sentences against people caught with small quantities of the drug.
Received first reading in the House of Commons

Do-not-call list

C-37: An act to amend the Telecommunications Act.
The unsolicited telecommunications bill prevents telemarketers from phoning households on a do-not-call list.
Passed by the House of Commons, awaiting Senate passage

Financial items

Supplementary estimates to be voted on Dec. 8:
A $220-million increase in Old Age Security payments and guaranteed income supplement payments.
A $100-million program to compensate farmers for the mad-cow crisis.
A $6-billion transfer to the provinces to cover health and education costs.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/election2005/minoritygovt.html

This is why I've lost a lot of respect for Jack Layton. They already HAD those things. Layton's reasoning should have been: in the event that I withdraw my support from the Liberal coalition:

Best Case Scenario: my party gains a few more seats and sits in a Liberal minority govt

Worst Case Scenario: PM STEPHEN HARPER ... NDP HAS ZERO FEDERAL INFLUENCE

Layton got obsessed with wielding power not for any useful political gain, but just because he could. NDP numbers spiked a few percent following his decision to withdraw from the govt, but that's obviously a short-term reaction. He's deluded himself into thinking that he'll win more votes by shitting on the Liberals now and looking like a tough guy wielding a bit stick than he would have by not doing anything and waiting for an election to be called in another two months. The Conservatives can draw votes away from the Liberals, whereas I haven't seen any evidence that the NDP can do it in anything approaching significant numbers.

i feel like puking.

Well, the Bloc exists on pure spite, so any chance to humiliate the Liberals is good fun for them.

Be careful. There are a couple of closet seperatists lurking about on ILE and they'll have your head for comments like that. (I completely agree with you)

I had my application for an absentee ballot all filled out and ready to go back in April. Looks like I'd better dig it out of my desk drawer.

yeeeeesh

what do you all make of michael ignatieff running as a liberal?

When is the final Gomery Report due? If the Liberals are re-elected, will they be forced to call yet another election within 30 days of the Final Gomery Report, as they'd previously promised?

Minority governments look like they're going to be the norm for the foreseeable future, does that mean Parliament will probably never be functional again? Or can the current players be expected to make Government work at some point?

Hello My Fellow Conservatives,

It has come to my attention that the lying Liberals have recently released an “Elexmas newsletter”. This is nothing but another example of the “culture of entitlement” and I would like to take this opportunity to emulate them. Let us never forget, as Conservatives, we despise the Liberals and all they stand for; but there must be no discernable difference between us and them.

So, Merry Elexmas!

By now you know that we have defeated the government. It has been suggested that the people of Canada do not want an election at this juncture. Those of you who know me know this: I don’t care what the people think. I am not a people person. I don’t like people and the feeling is mutual.

I must admit I am sick of this discussion. I ask you, why in heaven’s name would I like People? The so called “people” had their chance 18 months ago and they choose not to give me a majority. This morning I suggested to Tom Flannigan that we should change our campaign slogan from “Standing up for Canada” to “Fuck the People”. He said no, pointing out that in politics honesty is not the best policy. “Besides” he added, “300 million bucks on an election nobody wants is about as big a “fuck you” to the people that the Tories can muster”. How we laughed!

So far I feel the campaign is going really well. In an effort to appease Ontario voters it is imperative that we bring forward an image of moderation. To this end I would like to point out that I waited a full five hours after parliament dissolved before I started in on the queers.

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Anyway it’s day two and I have to run. Somebody at Tory Headquarters gave my phone number to Peter McKay and now I have to get a new phone and initiate another purge.

Good luck and God Bless.
Stephen Harper

Hahaha, "closeted" my ass, moron.

And anyway yeah, at this point the Bloc does exist primarily out of spite, and hey, why not?

Hahaha, "closeted" my ass, moron.

I don't think anyone would acuse you of being in the closet as you've made it quite clear where you stand.

And anyway yeah, at this point the Bloc does exist primarily out of spite, and hey, why not?

Nice to see that you're finally being honest anyway.

in Quebec, i would work for them