tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post2440223655973781310..comments2024-03-28T19:18:40.387-04:00Comments on Northern Reflections: A Fractured PartyOwen Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-41760833865177013232021-08-11T07:40:46.818-04:002021-08-11T07:40:46.818-04:00I'm getting the impression, TB, that lots of C...I'm getting the impression, TB, that lots of Canadians feel as you do.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-11226955441053518262021-08-10T23:32:16.120-04:002021-08-10T23:32:16.120-04:00That we judge our political party affiliations upo...That we judge our political party affiliations upon Trudeau's stand on gay conversion therapy vs the conservative dislike of such says much of Canadian politics as the world around us burns!<br />Has deflection politics reached it's end in Canada?<br />That real issues are not been discussed reminds me to spoil my vote.<br /><br />TBTrailblazerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03436709163754934547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-42990186386722020292021-08-10T13:35:42.608-04:002021-08-10T13:35:42.608-04:00The obvious solution is proportional representatio...The obvious solution is proportional representation, Mound. But the obvious is just too difficult to deal with.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-39826750109539957762021-08-10T13:33:29.808-04:002021-08-10T13:33:29.808-04:00They already live in interesting times, rumley. Th...They already live in interesting times, rumley. They just don't know it.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-23227067141794141902021-08-10T12:19:40.341-04:002021-08-10T12:19:40.341-04:00Preston Manning did more than anyone to hand Jean ...Preston Manning did more than anyone to hand Jean Chretien majority wins. With the redneck contingent voting reform the right succumbed to a civil war. The PCs never recovered from the post-Mulroney collapse. They fell back on weak leaders incapable of uniting the right - Charest, Joe Clark, Elsie Wayne, Peter MacKay. Harper demanded they submit and MacKay did just that.<br /><br />Thanks to inept Liberal leaders such as Dion and Ignatieff, Harper rode to power. He even won a majority term. However the emergent Conservative Party remained with open redneck sores and at odds with mainstream Canada.<br /><br />Prairie populism still doesn't sit well with central and coastal Canada. Rempel is just another shit-kicking redneck reminding us of what lurks inside the Conservative Party. O'Toole has as much charisma as Dion. The Tories are reduced to a party of narrowly held grievance.<br /><br />Angus Reid finds that Trudeau's Liberals lead O'Toole's Tories by a margin of 35% to 30%. With Tory support disproportionately concentrated in the prairies that can translate into a false majority for Trudeau. The Libs will again crow that a 35% vote share is a clear mandate to do as they damn well please and the country will languish again.The Disaffected Libhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13135599782685108764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-60642888395309215412021-08-10T11:58:02.234-04:002021-08-10T11:58:02.234-04:00Harper's Party was always a Rube Goldberg mach...Harper's Party was always a Rube Goldberg machine, Cap. And Rube Goldberg is gone.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-58898323201971855622021-08-10T11:55:53.709-04:002021-08-10T11:55:53.709-04:00An interesting piece, Lorne. We live in the Bay of...An interesting piece, Lorne. We live in the Bay of Quinte riding. O'Toole claimed that we were a "hidden gem." Judging from the Quebec license plates and the French you hear on the streets, it's a safe bet that we're hidden no more.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-31074789116405947602021-08-10T11:32:57.579-04:002021-08-10T11:32:57.579-04:00The fracturing into a bunch of minor parties bitch...The fracturing into a bunch of minor parties bitching and blathering about each other accelerates.<br /><br />First it was Mad Max referred to in that old time restaurant chant: Party of One.<br /><br />Now we have Derek Sloan still rubbing his ass where the big boot hit wants to form his own party where he will become the Alone Ranger.<br /><br />Petey is now trying to get people to forget his place in the CPC ( no not Communist Party of Canada ) and is positioning for the departure of the errant old guy when he expects to be coronated . PP's Party of Partriachy probably.<br /><br />There are plenty of recruits ready to form splinter parties , the Ragged Individualist Party probably , on the prairies.<br /><br />Concervatives are about to live in interesting times.rumleyfipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03346146988416679423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-59141467724787656882021-08-10T11:15:39.377-04:002021-08-10T11:15:39.377-04:00The hostile takeover of the PCs by Reform has alwa...The hostile takeover of the PCs by Reform has always been a shaky structure. Harper held it together with an iron fist, but now that he's gone, it's riven by factions - urban vs rural, social conservatives vs economic conservatives, western separatists vs the rest of Canada, reality-based vs conspiracy-based, white supremacists vs conservative immigrants, and so on. After the next election, O'Toole will disappear like the morning dew. The party's in limbo waiting for the next great grifter to take charge. <br /><br />CapAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-58448192856972930962021-08-10T10:55:59.910-04:002021-08-10T10:55:59.910-04:00There is a good piece by John Ivison today that ca...There is a good piece by John Ivison today that captures the divided nature of the Conservative Party, Owen. https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/john-ivison-showing-erin-otoole-a-path-to-victoryLornehttps://politicsanditsdiscontents.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com