OK, so it is shaping up to be a minority government. The question is becoming: which SP (a choice of NDP or Bloc Quebecois) should which John (Liberal / Conservative) go to bed with? Under which period of heat? And at what price?
I can’t imagine either the Liberal or the Conservative would be stupid enough to go to bed with the Quebecois, if they have any aspiration of winning a 2nd term. NDP most likely will end up as the biggest winner of them all. For a party whose only policy “know-how” is to spend at all cost to look after the “poors” and whose definition of “rich” is anyone who makes more than, give and take, $50,000 a year, the thought of the NDP’s influence in the upcoming minority government is scary.
On the surface, a coalition of the Conservatives and NDP is a dream team, offering the “best of both worlds” in unaffordable, huge funding to health care, day care, subsidized housing, education, the homeless, the young, the old, the under-privileged – in the NDP way, while achieving all of these with tax cuts to all, as advocated by the Conservatives. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that this coalition will be a disaster for Canada, guaranteeing a deficit – hidden the Ontario Tory’s way, or otherwise - that will drag Canada into a “black hole” for years to come.
I am voting Liberal. Yes, I’m mad as hell with McQuinty. This guy is either the most incompetent there is for not knowing Ontario Tory’s hidden deficit, having been the leader of the opposition party for 8 years, or he is the biggest liar who played naive ness to his selfish agenda. He is probably both. Yes, I’m mad at the Fed Liberal’s advertising scandal. But the Fed Liberal has put Canada back on the right track, having inherited from Mulroney the deficit that added millions of interest charges to Canadians by the minute
Yes, Liberal has been ruling for too long and it is time for change. But change for the sake of change is not necessary for the better. Yes, Fed Liberals have its share of broken promises, but haven’t all parties? Canada has enjoyed stability, prosperity and a better-than-balanced budget in the last decade. Of all parties that were charged with the task of fiscal prudence and responsibility, the Liberals have my vote.
The current wave of anti-Liberal is understandable and justified. However, ask yourself this question: had the Ontario Tory been re-elected, and its hidden deficit been revealed, would you vote for the Fed Conservatives?
