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Ms O’Grady’s article (Monday’s Wall Street Journal)-Canada’s Conservatives
Overreach– shows what a difference two days can make in politics. Now it
looks like the Liberals and the NDP overreached!

The Liberals and the NDP formed the coalition with a view to defeating the
Conservative government and slipping into power without an election. This
Liberal/NDP/Bloc Quebecois troika absolutely depended on that assumption.
It should be noted that the Bloc Quebecois has no legitimacy in nine of the
ten Provinces of Canada; it does not seek votes outside the Province of
Quebec; and its primary objective is to break up the Federation. Should
this coalition come to power, the party seeking to break up the Federation
would have veto power all the Federal Government’s decisions. With that in
mind, it is clear why the attempt to unseat the Conservative government
created such a furious outcry.

Further, the claimed pretext for forming the coalition, namely the
Conservatives’ plan to cease the subsidizing of political parties with
taxpayers’ money, is, according to the latest poll, supported by fully 61%
of the electorate. Yet another poll reveals that more that two thirds of
the electorate (68% nationally and higher in some of the nine
English-speaking Provinces) want a new election should the government fall.

After years of posing as the main federalist party in Canada, and especially
in Quebec, these shabby dealings may well have done lasting harm to the
Liberal Party. With the polls showing what the voters think of this deal,
it’s no wonder the troika wanted to avoid an election: they would be
hammered at the polls, and Mr. Harper may well turn out to be the unintended
victor in this conspiracy.

Regards,

The Dark Lord