Jay Currie

“There is fear in the land,” said Ignatieff, who has been holding consultations across the country in advance of the return of Parliament on Jan. 26. the star

The elderly will remember Keith Spicer’s 1991 Report following the collapse of the Meech Lake Accord which, if memory serves, began “There is anger in the land.”

That anger, [...]

SH: OK, so here’s the plan. Jim, you are going to helicopter in the bailout money to the car companies. I’m cutting a deal with Ontario so their seat count goes up.

JF: I just heard the carcos are not going to be making any cars in January.

SH: Does that matter?

JF: Well don’t you think people [...]

I posted this in the comments over at Glavin’s:

Terry I am having way too much fun with this. What we are actually seeing here is a fight for the soul of the Liberal Party and for its very existence.

(And, before I go on, I rather like Iggy and could easily live with him as Prime [...]

From Kady:

There is a sense in the party, and certainly in the caucus, that given these new circumstances the new leader needs to be in place before the House resumes. I agree. I recommend this course to my party and caucus. As always, I want to do what is best for my country and my [...]

It means if you’re a Liberal looking to escape from the coalition — and virtual extinction at the next election — Iggy’s not your boy. He is implicated up to his ears, only without even the virtue of conviction. When the Tories come to remind voters, as they will, who tried to “steal” the election, [...]

If an election were held today, Stephen Harper would win a large majority based on nation-wide support of 51% compared to 20% for the Liberals, 10% for the NDP, 6% for the Greens, and 8% for the Bloc. Harper would sweep seat-rich Ontario with 53% of the vote compared to 24% for the Liberals and [...]

The Toronto Star, Pravda for the Toronto Party, reports:

Federal Liberals say that Stéphane Dion’s leadership role could be coming to an early end as the party gears up for the next round of political conflict with Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government. toronto star

Of course those are just “unnamed sources”. Over at the Globe and Mail [...]

The poor Lying Jackal hates the coalition so much I almost feel sorry for him – almost.

In the most desperate way he wants to explain to the dullards in the Toronto Party that the Coalition is a non-starter, DOA, gone to the fjords. But, so long as his man Iggy sits on his hands, the [...]

“Rae steps in as coalition’s chief salesman”

Brilliant! The Globe and Mail reports that Bob Rae is stepping in to sell the “Coalition” across Canada.

The beauty of this is that the Iggynauts now have a good, solid, political reason to begin to defect. Rae is running against their guy. If, by some strange chance, he can [...]

Breaking: New polls show huge Tory gains:
Ipsos: CPC 46, LPC 23, NDP 13, BQ 9, GPC 8
Ekos: CPC 44, LPC 24, NDP 15, BQ 9, GPC 8
Compas: 72% biz leaders see worse economy under Dion coalition
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Ha, ha, ha….

“Region: East –West fracture now starts at the Ottawa River (CPC have an
astonishing 22-point in Ontario); Alberta incensed [...]

That’s the sound of the Coalition lead balloon’s slow motion death spiral hitting the hard frozen ground.

The prorogation of this session of Parliament gives Harper and the CPC time to write an Election Budget, appoint a few Liberal MPs to sinecures, run an advertising campaign to paint the Libs and NDP as Bloc huggers, and [...]

Face Parliament on Monday.

Appoint a few Ambassadors and Crown Corp Chairman from the Liberal ranks. (But not Iggy’s people.) Take a meeting with Iggy. Ignore Dion.

Watch the Liberals scutter.

Win the vote.

At a time when he needed to look reassuring, to look prime ministerial, he looked exactly the way the Conservatives have been trying to portray him – like the leader of some sort of third-rate coup, being filmed in his hideout with one of his accomplices sticking a cheap video camera in his face. [...]

I was in Guelph last Friday for a meeting. I wish I had met Frank Valeriote then. Maybe someday soon.

Here’s another brave man, Michael Chong, from the other side of the aisle. We were at a wonderful Sikh wedding last weekend, and Michael was there – and I can attest to the fact that he, [...]

Frank Valeriote does not favour a coalition government and instead hopes Prime Minister Stephen Harper can work toward rescuing the Canadian economy.

“I believe in working toward a solution, not working toward a coalition,” Guelph’s Liberal MP said Wednesday. Guelph Mercury via the shotgun

One down 8 to go.

I know a good many Liberals who are utterly aghast at where this is taking their party. Simply put, Dion is driving them off a cliff. That picture of Dion, Duceppe and Layton together on the podium will be featured in every Tory attack ad from here to kingdom come. It will burn its way [...]

Prime Minister Stephane Dion? Somehow, the guy who’s not leader enough to lead his own party is apparently leader enough to the lead the whole country. It seems the more prudent idea would be for the Liberal party to choose a real leader before signing onto an 18-month coalition that would include three completely ideologically [...]

“In the years that I have served in the (legislature), I don’t know if there was another issue that’s drawn such angry response from Albertans,” Stelmach said Tuesday afternoon. The premier has been representing rural residents in and around Vegreville since 1993.

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“Let’s put Canada first…. Allow the prime minister to deliver the budget, and then [...]

I wrote this over at Alan’s:

As my old professor Keith Spicer memorably put it – “There is an anger in this land.”

After being fed the Liberal Party/National Media line that to co-operate with Quebec separatists was pretty much treasonous there is the Toronto Party, with the Annex Media, on its knees co-operating.

From a Western perspective [...]

Here’s Ezra’s point 17 – the other 16 are well worth reading if you want to understand the nuts and bolts of the “Coalition”.

17. My point is this: This isn’t a Liberal-NDP deal. A Liberal-NDP deal doesn’t get them to a majority. A Liberal-NDP deal would be ignored by the Governor General. Only a [...]