TheStar.com - News - Grits and Greens make a deal: "Grits and Greens make a deal"
Canadian politics seems to be predictably trundling along when Mike Duffy on CTV News says something that makes you blink and check the newspaper for the full story.
Here Stephen Harper is sewing up the environmental portfolio, stealing Stephane Dion's limelight and central theme, and casting him as a lameduck leader in the process, when Dion covers himself in the blanket of the Green Party by making a deal with their leader Elizabeth May.
The Green Party is undoubtedly considered the most green of all the federal parties; May is now featured when the media look for critiques of Harper's green platform. By making the deal with May, Dion not only leapfrogs over Harper in the who's-more-green game, but also shows himself a man of the old school, the one that plays fair, the kind we miss, that doesn't disparage his opponents a la Harper. He demonstrates true class, what a real man is made of, and in the process making Harper look just like a guttersnipe. He cements this image of being a real man, a mature man, by making a deal that benefits May more than him, in terms of the election itself. She now has a real shot at winning her impossible-to-win seat. Nice.
Canadian politics seems to be predictably trundling along when Mike Duffy on CTV News says something that makes you blink and check the newspaper for the full story.
Here Stephen Harper is sewing up the environmental portfolio, stealing Stephane Dion's limelight and central theme, and casting him as a lameduck leader in the process, when Dion covers himself in the blanket of the Green Party by making a deal with their leader Elizabeth May.
The Green Party is undoubtedly considered the most green of all the federal parties; May is now featured when the media look for critiques of Harper's green platform. By making the deal with May, Dion not only leapfrogs over Harper in the who's-more-green game, but also shows himself a man of the old school, the one that plays fair, the kind we miss, that doesn't disparage his opponents a la Harper. He demonstrates true class, what a real man is made of, and in the process making Harper look just like a guttersnipe. He cements this image of being a real man, a mature man, by making a deal that benefits May more than him, in terms of the election itself. She now has a real shot at winning her impossible-to-win seat. Nice.
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He's polling neck and neck with Taliban Jack... but Steffi just sees clear sailing ahead.
“Liberals all over are mobilizing and working very hard,” he said after a speech in Montreal, telling reporters he wasn't worried about the future.
“I do not feel the fears that you are referring to.”
No pain, no sense.
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I've never understood why people think Liberals and NDP ought to collaborate. With the way Liberals govern (for the rich and powerful), it's antithetical to the NDP. Whereas the Conservatives, in its present incarnation, putatively come from the same roots out west as the NDP. Also people who vote NDP won't vote Conservative, so working with them won't cost the NDP votes in that way.
Bob Rae wouldn't have a chance in hell in the east end and, smart man, knows it. Voters there vote like sheep for (a) the incumbent and (b) the NDP.