[Bruce_the_vii]

As Michael Ignatieff sinks in the popular media our leader Stephen Harper remains stuck at the same quagmire 34% level of support. He just isn't a sell to most Canadians. Here's an article saying he's in trouble as well.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opi ... le1603942/

Question is is there an alternative? I can't even think of a short list. Who's in the wings?

[kenmore]

Thats cause he is an ass hole! get over it! harper is a doomed idiot

[RUEZ]

kenmore wrote:

Thats cause he is an ass hole! get over it! harper is a doomed idiot

Grow up.

[jeff744]

the choices:

NDP - Untested leader and party
Liberal - Spending cuts which bring economy back in black, untested leader
Cons - Proven untrustworthy leader, random spending increases, economy sinks further into red

[QBC]

Canada is facing a very tough issue when it comes to the leadership of our nation. The NDP has a role, there is no doubt, but leading the country, no. The Liberals haven't been able to get a real leader at the helm for a very long time and it doesn't look like they will any time soon. They keep putting up either wimps or mental midgets. The Conservatives keep putting up baby kissing used car salesmen that 65-70% of Canadians don't trust. The only reason to elect them is that they're not the Liberals, but that will only last so long. Memories fade and people will grow tired of their ineffectual leadership.

The reason for the minority governments, we don't have any good leadership in any party and people are voting for the one they think doesn't suck the worst. Sad state of affairs for our country. I wouldn't let any of the party leaders be a manager of a 7/11 let alone run Canada. Time to clean house.

[Lemmy]

QBC wrote:

Canada is facing a very tough issue when it comes to the leadership of our nation. The NDP has a role, there is no doubt, but leading the country, no. The Liberals haven't been able to get a real leader at the helm for a very long time and it doesn't look like they will any time soon. They keep putting up either wimps or mental midgets. The Conservatives keep putting up baby kissing used car salesmen that 65-70% of Canadians don't trust. The only reason to elect them is that they're not the Liberals, but that will only last so long. Memories fade and people will grow tired of their ineffectual leadership.

The reason for the minority governments, we don't have any good leadership in any party and people are voting for the one they think doesn't suck the worst. Sad state of affairs for our country. I wouldn't let any of the party leaders be a manager of a 7/11 let alone run Canada. Time to clean house.

[RUEZ]

jeff744 wrote:

Cons - Proven untrustworthy leader, random spending increases, economy sinks further into red

I'm gonna let you in on a little secret. The world just went through one of it's worst recessions and Canada did better than just about every other country. Despite being closely tied to the U.S. Think about it.

[jeff744]

RUEZ wrote:

jeff744 wrote:

Cons - Proven untrustworthy leader, random spending increases, economy sinks further into red

I'm gonna let you in on a little secret. The world just went through one of it's worst recessions and Canada did better than just about every other country. Despite being closely tied to the U.S. Think about it.

I'll let you in on a few secrets, our banks are extremely stable thus saving us from massive calling in of debts towards the consumers, we are far more resource export based than industrial in comparison to other countries, politically we are able to get far more done (not that that did much good this time around), and we are considered one of the stablest economies in the world.

We survived because the system was built to survive exactly this kind of situation, Harper just happened to be in government in time to claim the credit for it.

[djakeydd]

kenmore wrote:

Thats cause he is an ass hole! get over it! harper is a doomed idiot

Here's Harper with a dome on his head

[Bruce_the_vii]

My understanding is Peter McKay is the heir apparent. He was the leader of the remains of the conservatives and is in line to take over. I believe he would be centerist, if the caucus would support him. The partisan supporters of the Liberals descibe him as a dummy but he may be adequate. His advantage over Harper is he could run a centerist platform whereas people just think Harper is a cold fish. I'm not sure what he could do on the policy side. The Conservatives have a dearth of talent that could sweep the country.

[Zipperfish]

RUEZ wrote:

I'm gonna let you in on a little secret. The world just went through one of it's worst recessions and Canada did better than just about every other country. Despite being closely tied to the U.S. Think about it.

Thank you, Paul Martin!

[2Cdo]

kenmore wrote:

Thats cause he is an ass hole! get over it! harper is a doomed idiot

Says the one-trick pony. He's been in power how long now? I suppose if you keep saying this for long enough he will eventually disappear from politics, but I can't see it happening anytime soon.

You're just waiting for your messiah, the Trudeau spawn to come along and finish ruining this country.

[PostFactum]

djakeydd wrote:

kenmore wrote:

Thats cause he is an ass hole! get over it! harper is a doomed idiot

Here's Harper with a dome on his head

Ahaha)) What means PM on his T-shirt?

[Bruce_the_vii]

It's true that Stephan Harper has captained his government through nearly four and half years of minority rule but he still doesn't get it. His government is proped up by The Official Opposition, he'll tell you he's not running a very peculiar coalition and in fact he never discusses common ground with Co-Leader Ignatieff. Here's an article that mentions that:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/pol ... le1607748/

You don't have to read the article, here's the paragraph:

And he is still waiting for the phone to ring from 24 Sussex. Although Mr. Harper leads a minority government, Mr. Ignatieff says he never calls him about anything.

“ … which may interest you. I mean it’s an interesting thing. We’re in a minority government and the phone never rings. I’m not looking for it to ring, I’m just telling you it never rings.”

[Bruce_the_vii]

The Conservative Finance Minister has introduce expensive corporate tax cuts, some $50 billion to go on the debt, in order to stimulate job creation. At the same time the Conservative Prime Minister is concerned with coming labour shortages, the unemployment being 8.1% now and labour shortages and wage inflation appear at 6%. As a result he has maintained a high level of immigration through the downturn. It's fairly clear that the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister don't talk either.