{"id":44843,"date":"2018-09-10T03:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T07:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=44843"},"modified":"2018-09-09T11:58:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T15:58:56","slug":"speculation-on-an-early-federal-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/09\/10\/speculation-on-an-early-federal-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Speculation on an early federal election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ted Campbell<\/a> on the recent musings in the official party organ<\/font><\/strike> Toronto Star<\/em> on the pros and cons of the Prime Minister going to the polls this fall rather than next year:<\/p>\n

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The Star<\/em>, a pretty Liberal friendly journal, says, in an article by Robin Sears<\/a>, a former NDP insider (in fact he was national director of the NDP for seven years), that \u201cLiberal hawks, like those of a generation earlier, are heatedly debating a snap election call. Not entirely surprising, since [we] have not seen a decade since the \u201950s when a government has not been forced by events, or decided to seize a strategic advantage, and called an early election \u2026 [and] \u2026 The Liberal hawks\u2019 arguments are getting stronger. Neither of their opponents is ready, and each will likely be stronger a year from now. The Federal Court and Donald Trump have both just stuck a finger in the Prime Minister\u2019s eye. This is an opportunity to return the favour with a much harder counterpunch, a strong new political mandate.\u201c<\/p>\n

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I agree with Robin Sears \u2026 going [to] the polls sooner, in the fall of 2017, and running against Donald Trump (and the ghost of Stephen Harper) makes good political sense because it seems, to me, highly unlikely that Justin Trudeau and his gang that cannot shoot straight are going to get any better in the next year or so. In fact the Trudeau regime\u2019s record, to date, suggests that a year from now the country might be in ruins.<\/p>\n

Right now the NDP appears to be in shambles; Jagmeet Singh\u2019s leadership is being questioned at pretty high levels, and the Conservatives are still reeling from Maxime\u2019s Bernier\u2019s defection. Waiting until October 2018 risks giving both the Conservatives and the NDP time to reorganize and present new, attractive programmes and, perhaps even new, more attractive leaders, too.<\/p>\n

Will he go to the polls in 2017? Who knows? Parliament is due to reconvene, after the long summer recess, in a week ~ on 17 September. Many people were expecting a new Throne Speech outlining a pre-election platform filled with promises that will, most likely, never be kept, but Robin Sears makes a good case for Prime Minister Trudeau to go to the Governor General, next week, and to tell her that the situation is such that Canada\u2019s government needs a new mandate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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