Ding Dong the wicked witch is starting to look like a tired old hag!
I didn’t think of that headline myself. It was spoken by Kyle Braid of Ipsos Reid who revealed today’s poll results ( not to be confused with yesterday’s lousy results reported in my blog and the Globe)
Braid reveals a new tidbit with this piece of news because now not only does the public have any use for Clark but officially neither does her party!
Expect phone huddling and meetings over the weekend looking for the quickest way to make her disappear.
Clark did not help herself with her recent mauling of Mario Canseco of Angus Reid. These guys will and did get you Christy.
He won fair and square. The Courts should butt out!
I find the Etobicoke Center case to be interesting not just because I am a Conservative with a vested interest ( I hate losing) but because as a Campaign Manager in the last election I went to a number of Elections Canada meetings for both of the Electoral Districts I worked in.
For what it’s worth they were located in Langley and Surrey British Columbia.
This question was front and center at all the meetings because a lot of us were startled by Elections Canada’s rules regarding specifically homeless people voting.
Essentially we were told that if a homeless person approached the booth and said he lived in the area he or she was eligible to vote.
Recently,as I am sure you are aware an Ontario Court judge tossed out the election result in which the Conservative Ted Opitz won by a mere 26 votes.
What the correct thing to do is anybody’s guess and I have my opinions and I will share them shortly.
This whole thing reminds me of voting in Saskatchewan in the late 80’s and early 90’s. As scrutineers we were always warned about a certain political party ( I was a conservative, It was not the Liberals and the green and Saskatchewan Party did not exist back then) would fill up vacant rental house just before the election with students,drunks etc, and get them to vote repeatedly.
Most scrutineers were stressed and tense and I recall challenging many a vote.( Hey you have already voted get lost!)
In the case of Etobicoke Centre I feel for all the people involved.
I feel for our guy because as the judge said he did nothing wrong and it was because of Elections Canada’s rules that this happened.
I feel for the Liberal ( not really he’s a Liberal) who lost his seat by 26 votes.
I feel for the voters who had their result tossed out.
The problem as I see it in tossing out the result a year later is that it does not take into consideration the climate on the original voting day as compared to what exists now over a year later.
People voted not just for Opitz but to toss Igantieff out!
Quite frankly Mr. Opitz will get screwed if this Ontario court judges ruling is allowed to stand.
What I think should happen is that the Supreme court should throw out the Ontario judges ruling for a number of reasons.
They would be: Courts should not interfere in election results otherwise every close result will be referred to the courts who have no business getting involved.
Secondly people vote on a given day for a given reason. That can change 13 months or more later and is also not fair to the process.( See giving Mike Ignatieff the high hard one above)
What should happen is that the Supreme Court Should allow the election result to stand and admonish Elections Canada for the stupidity of the rules. They should give it a year to report back to the court with streamlined rules to prevent this from happening again.
Everybody should have to show proper ID to vote, no exceptions!
Premier ‘I don’t pay attention to polls” Clark will pay attention to this poll, she will have no choice.
I would think,that although there is still a bit of space between where they are and rock bottom, the chants for Clark’s head will start again ( If they ever stopped)
With this poll this election now becomes more than losing a few seats, it ( No how much BS Comes out of the mouth of Mike McDonald) will be about losing a party.
You can now expect to see the beginning of an exodus of Conservative Volunteers from the BC Liberal party to the safer confines of the BC Conservatives.
My Guess: Clark is gone and likely before the big convention in the fall.
How many times do I have to answer that Question ? How about until you answer it you blockhead!
I never started this blog as a open window to the world on what an idiot we have as a Premier but Christy Clark makes this too easy.
Case in point: Today, in this the week of Clark rolling out old announcements trying to make them look new, she couldn’t answer a simple question about how much money she was committing to the so-called St.Paul’s redevelopment project.
She told reporters a number of times she had already answered the question but of course she hadn’t. She was finally able to come up with an answer but what was galling was that she actually thought she answered it.
Even worse when repeatedly asked to go on record with an answer she got lippy with reporters.
She is such a dolt that she can’t remember from one word to the next what she says.
This kind of off the cuff stuff from Clark gives credence to the story that she makes this crap up as she goes along.
About the only bright side is that if the BC Liberals leave Clark in as leader we will have another 11 months of this unintended slapstick provided by the hapless Premier.
Does the fact that the Premier is a dope make you laugh or cry?
It's easy son, wave it a little longer and they will want you real bad!
Justin Trudeau has once again said he is not interested in the job of permanent Liberal leader. He made that clear moments after Bob Rae announced that he would stay on as interim leader but would not be in the running for the permanent job.
This presents a huge problem for the party that is trying to reinvent itself.
At this point Gerrard Kennedy,Joyce Murray,Martha Hall Findlay,Marc Garneau, Dominic LeBlanc and David McGuinty are the names rumored to be interested in the job.
These potential candidates would have trouble motivating their own EDA ( Electoral District Association) boards to show up at their summer barbeques let alone captivate the country to vote for them.
So unless they have a sleeper superstar ( Dalton McGuinty LOL ) it comes to begging Trudeau to take the job.
The Dilemma of course is if he takes the job it helps the Conservatives, if he doesn’t take the job Tommy Mulcair and the NDP will steam roll them in the next election.
It is sort of a ” your screwed if you do, screwed if you don’t” situation don’t you think?
With last nights split in the Quebec by-elections, I wonder what message the electorate is sending the government and perhaps by extension the country?
Hey Pauline if the country thinks I was an asshole, wait 'til they see you in action!
With the PQ win in a usually safe federal seat, were voters using the by-election as a safe time to send the Charest government a message or is full scale change happening which will lead to another full on unity debate as pompous windbag Pauline Marios seems to think?
With the world economy once again on edge , can Quebec and Canada afford to have that discussion now?
Can Quebec afford to have that discussion no matter the shape of our economy given it relies so much on Federal government assistance ? ( You thought I was going to say because they are a bunch of freeloaders living off the country and whining whenever seat redistribution or senate reform comes up for discussion?)
I would suspect that common sense will eventually prevail and even if the government turns over Quebec will vote to stay in Canada.
If however, we have a referendum and the polls look like we are headed for separation we can always make a robocall or two to Jacque Parizeau”s friends.
In another few weeks the race will officially kick off for the Federal Liberal leadership.
A lot of discussion lately has been centered around who will run.Will it be Rae? Trudeau? McGuinty?
Just What will the lucky winner Champion?
The better question in my opinion would be : Just what will the eventual winner be leading?
Will that winner lead a party which is on its deathbed and has little hope of coming back to life as the party they know and recognize Or Will that lucky winner have to be a good negotiator so that he or she can play a lead role in negotiating a merger with the NDP?
Recent polling of supporters would seem to show that they want the two parties to merge so that they can defeat the Stephen Harper led Conservative Government.
That decision has to be made before any leadership contest because it will help determine the type of leader needed to make any negotiations successful.
Of course merging is no guarantee of winning any election.
They have to prove they can get along together first before the Canadian people trust them to govern.
That in itself is no small order for two parties like the Liberals and the NDP?
Do the Conservatives care who wins?
If you believe the rumors that they already have ads ready that say elect Rae and he will do for Canada what he did to Ontario, then if McGuinty runs and wins they would simply have to change the name because as everybody knows he is making a mess of Ontario as well.
Trudeau? Not much different; Elect Justin Trudeau and he will make a mess of Canada just like his father did.
Unless they have some superstar with no baggage their only hope is to merge and I don’t see that happening for at least one election.
The party of Adscam always has to learn their lesson the hard way.
Over the next days and weeks there will be countless discussions on the Liberal brand both federally and with the British Colombian election eleven months away provincially.
Lots will be said about who will want to run for the Federal Liberals when the question should probably be what will the eventual winner actually be leading.
Here in BC the discussion will be centered around the BC Liberals changing their name, Christy Clark’s leadership and the horror of a Dix led NDP win.
Prompted by Michael Smyth’s eight handy hints for Clark, I thought I would kick off discussion today with a look at the hints and reasons why Clark and the Liberals are doomed to lose.
Smyth’s article presupposes that people ( like MLA van Dongen and volunteer campaign workers like me) are malcontents because we left the party.
Nothing could be further than the truth.
I left because I had enough. I heard a Campbell speech in 1999 that started with I want to be Premier because I want BC to be a place my kids can grow up in,work here and live here.
In 2009 Campbell made a speech at his nomination that said I want to be Premier to build a province that my Grandchildren can live here and work here.
Same Speech 10 years later meant to me they had done nothing in the first 10 years of their mandate.
What life the BC Liberal party had for me died that night.
That combined with HST,Basi Virk etc. was and is a party that I no longer wanted to be associated with.
For John,the BC liberal Brand died later,but died it did.
When he left( that took courage), as you have heard van Dongen says countless times, it was because he wanted open honest accountable government. He has added that he wants to work in a government that both he and the electorate can trust.
This is not happening now and will not happen under the BC Liberals, Clark and the smoke and mirrors of a name change now.
People like John and I want to build a better BC that all of us can be proud of and that includes the people we elect to government.
We can’t do it under the Liberals and we cant do it with the same people under a different name.
People do not trust her government and they won’t no matter what she does between now and next May.
Scaling back her holidays to 4 weeks as Bob Plecas suggests probably throws most British Columbians for a loop as well. Lets face it,when most people start a new job they only get 2 weeks after year one.
Add to that, the more times she is snapped smiling at summer barbeques the more her poll results will drop. With the house out, people will just assume she is on one long summer vacation.
I believe that most people live by the old adage that he or she who lives in a glass house shouldn’t throw stones.
For the Clark government to throw stones at Dix will endanger what little bit of a glass house the Liberal team has left.
Clark has not shown leadership since she was chosen to be Premier by the Liberal Party. An example of which is her stance on the pipeline.
Whatever she decides to do with this now will look like an act of a desperate politician . ( She is)
Finally, the handy hints and most discussion regarding re-branding and the fate of the Liberal party in BC leaves out is this: Dix’s poll results could be rising because the left leaning liberals have left the Clark tent.
Every time she pretends to be a Conservative more lefties leave the Liberal party, driving her poll numbers down even further.
What’s ahead? Certain electoral defeat for Clark and her team.
It is becoming evident that I should have entitled it Canada: Becoming a Culture of Idiots what with the recent goings on in Montreal and the dopes protesting in the near nude.
These idiots are not only interfering with one of the country’s biggest tourist attractions ( Montreal Grand Prix) but are also getting in the way of events where the so-called Elites are fundraising for a Children’s hospital.
Not only that but these morons are wasting copious amounts of taxpayers dollars given the cops don’t work for free.
You and I probably pay for these BLOCheads because most of them are either on welfare or collecting UIC.
Wonder where Pauline Marois and the PQ stand on this now?
I think we should bring out the water cannons and flush em all into the St. Lawrence.
