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OTTAWA, Canada (Reuters) -- The leader of Canada's main opposition Conservative Party says he can no longer trust the minority Liberal government -- comments that further increased the likelihood of a June election.
The sentiment was also voiced by the smaller, left-leaning New Democratic Party, which has generally supported the Liberals in Parliament.
It said on Tuesday, for the first time, that perhaps the country needed to go back to the ballot box. The last federal election was in June 2004.
The Conservatives currently lead the Liberals in opinion polls, in large part due to public anger over a government spending scandal involving alleged kickbacks to the Liberal Party in Quebec
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/04/19/canada.politics.reut/index.html
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give the voters much time to get to know the candidates, does it? Seems that with only two months to campaign in, you wind up with a 'whatever you get' elected official and the official may not be what you thought he/she was.
TONI
IMO an election campaign consists of the candidate
Telling people what they want to hear
Getting elected
then
Doing what the political party wants. (sometimes it happens it is what they promised)
Up here the government is run along party lines and the individual Member of Parliament does not have the power a Congressman or Senator appears to have in the US.
If the MP doesn't "toe the party line" the leader of the party won't sign the MPs papers that would allow him/her to run in the next election.
Individual members don't create too many scandals it's usually the entire system or a political party. Or the Prime Minister.
There are others but these are/were the biggest.
The Munsinger Affair Scandal
Year: 1961-1966
Level of Government: Federal
Prime Minister/Premier: John Diefenbaker/Lester Pearson
For almost three years between 1958 and 1961 Pierre S
Shawinigate. Of them all, I find the APEC and Somalia scandals the worst .
Our Liberal government has mistreated and/or neglected our military for too long now. They're so cheap they can't even buy them decent helicopters and submarines.Our personnel are still wearing 50s vintage uniforms. Our personal weapons are top of the line but that's pretty much it.
It's gotten to the point where they should either disband our military or start putting more money into it.Because right now the money we are putting into it is just maintaining the current level of inadequacy. We have to hitch rides witht the Americans or Brits if we want to move any troops overseas.
Not "free" just "not out of our pocket".
If we don't see it, it doesn't hurt as much.
Some provinces are pushing for "user pay" for some services
are 2 other parties and a couple of independents.
so long as the Liberals can put together a coalition to defeat a non-confidence motion, they can go on forever.
One of the strengths of Parliamentary government is that it lasts only as long as it has the confidence of the Members of Parliament. There's a Whip (person, not sex toy) to try to keep MP's in line with their party's policies, but members are relatively free on all bills which will not defeat the government.
Budgetary and money bills will defeat the government, as will others, but its too arcane for this semi-southern boy to understand.
Rob
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