38th minority Parliament: not memorable
Ned Franks, a top expert on Parliament democracy, says the 38th Parliament had no ‘knock-down, dragged out fight on public policy’ issues. The 38th minority Parliament had few highlights, won’t go down in the history books as a memorable one and was not marked by a high degree of cooperation among all political parties with […]
Pollsters say they’re scientists, but most are primarily salesmen who sell polls
There will be a general federal election and millions will vote, despite the public opinion polls. Do you want to go to work tomorrow? Do you want to keep up the car payments? Do you want a winter election? No, me neither. We could complain but it wouldn’t do any good.Yet one of these pointless […]
Clumsy, sloppy attacks in Quebec run won’t work, Liberals warned
Federal Liberals in Quebec are eager to put up a bigger fight against popular sovereigntist Bloc Quebecois in the next election. The federal Liberals’ strategy to attack the sovereigntists is a good one to gain ground in Quebec, but not if they’re firing “clumsy”random shots in all directions, a former policy adviser to the Bloc […]
Federal Libs DeTrudeauize Liberal Party of Canada
TORONTO – It’s going to be long, tough and dirty. It’s not the Iraq war, it’s the election campaign. If you want proof of how nasty it will be, just take a look at last week’s exchanges in the House between the opposition and government benches. Based on what political leaders are telling Canadians, there […]
The 44 Vulnerable Conservative Seats Across the Country, Based on June 2004 Federal Election Results
Riding MP % of vote received 1. Saskatoon-Humboldt, Sask. Bradley R.Trost 26.75% 2. Newton-North Delta, B.C. Gurmant Grewal 32.82% 3. New Westminster-Coquitlam, B.C. Paul Forseth 32.87% 4. Oshawa, Ont. Colin Carrie 33.21% 5. Regina-Lumsden-Lake Centre, Sask. Tom Lukiwski 33.21% 6. Saanich-Gulf Islands Gary Lunn 34.58% 7. West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast, B.C. John Reynolds 35.3% 8. Vancouver […]
The Money Election results are in, Libs have lost: The public subsidies will not be enough for the Liberals to win the money election
Canadian voters have not yet cast their ballots, but donors have, and the Liberals have already lost the Money Election. The Money Election takes place before the polling date, and most of the votes in this election are tallied before the formal writ is dropped. The votes are dollars, of course, and although ordinary Canadians […]
Federal Libs ‘well-resigned to their fate as nasty election set to begin
A ‘sense of futility’ pervades federal Liberal caucus as incumbents prepare to hit the campaign trail in historic, nasty, low-down and dirty campaign. Liberal incumbents are “well-resigned to their fate” on hitting the hustings three months early in what’s expected to be an unprecedented dirty, low-down, mudslinging election campaign, say Liberals. Most say it’s a […]
Parrish still supports Grits, but hopes for change in government
Outspoken and outgoing MP Carolyn Parrish says she’s ‘not a Paul Martin fan.’ She promises to reveal corrupt nomination processes and influence of backroom types in her upcoming book. National Post columnist Don Martin last week called her a “classic example of how a political nobody can talk herself into becoming a CNN-featured somebody.” Ouch. […]
Campaign 2005 spells a total paid media paradigm shift: a traditional paid ‘air war’ simply isn’t going to work, this time
What will work, in campaign terms, is creativity, volume, simplicity, repetition and salience. Voters want to hear, most of all, from politicians who want to talk about what matters to voters. What won’t work in this campaign: Powers: Well, Warren, it looks like we are heading to the polls again. This democracy can be messy […]
Government whip fails to restrict use of Ten Percenters
Her first attempt was voted down by the opposition in the House of Commons, but Chief Government Whip Karen Redman is vowing to bring back a motion to restrict the use of printed or photocopied material that MPs can send out through the Parliamentary printing service. “It won’t move forward in this Parliament. I still […]
