Crooked in Canada

The by-elections are over and the Tories won one seat and lost three after closely contested races in four by-elections on Monday. With the results in, it is pretty safe to assume that Stephane Dion’s future is on the line and that he needs to try working harder at the job he was given instead of making lame excuses,  making ridiculous predictions and threatening to topple the Harper government, if he wants to keep his job.  He has wasted a lot of time and opportunity for the Liberal Party by playing what I think is silly mind games from an experienced politician.  He has accomplished nothing since he was given his plum political post.

Now that the votes are all in and they have been counted Steph is back to doing what he does best, saying things that he can’t or won’t be able to back up.
This is what he had to say about Monday’s results, “The results might be different in a general election.” He’s right about that, but if he is at the helm of the Liberals when that general election is called, the results aren’t going to swing in his favour, especially if the Greens have anything to say or do about it.

Stephane Dion is working and living in lalaLiberal Land if he’s thinking his party would fair any better in a general election than they did in British Columbia and Saskatchewan.

The numbers alone in yesterday’s by-election is indicative that the Liberals are not as strong across Canada as they would like to think, and for Dion to even hint that his candidates could do better in a federal election, is kind of missing the point when it comes to what yesterday’s results really mean.

I think the message Dion should be getting from yesterday’s results is that he should be moving along, taking a hike, getting of the gravy train. Dion’s leadership, and I have said it since his first day on the job as Liberal leader, is the Liberal Party’s failure. One would think that with all his political experience, and the heavyweights that groomed him over the years, the Liberal machine could have cranked out a far better candidate for party leader. But they didn’t, and now they are slowly going to pay the price, starting on the West Coast.

The Green Party is quickly becoming a formidable opponent in BC and they will cause a lot of grief for the Liberals and Conservative candidates in a general election, though I think they would want to work with a Conservative government more so than a Liberal government when to comes to whoever is running the country when the Greens become a greater force in the House of Commons.

The Greens can’t possibly trust the Liberals enough these days given the previous Liberal government’s uselessness on such matters while they were running the country. Plus the Conservatives are in a far better position to prove to the Green Party that they are willing to work with them on environmental issues just as soon as they clean up the mess the former Liberal government left behind after they failed  to appease environmental lobbyists during the 13 years they were in power.  I doubt the Liberal Party has too many friends in the Green Party.

The Greens haven’t forgotten about the Liberal government and their uselessness when it came to protecting the Canadian and world environment.

I think the Greens would support and work well with a Conservative government on environmental issues, and the Conservatives could use the support in the House when it comes to confidence motions. They would make quite a coalition.

I think Steph over-estimates the strength the Liberals have in BC and across the country too, and at the end of the day, the Conservatives are going to wind up with a majority government. I also expect that Canadians will be amused when MPs start crossing the floor before a general election is called. And I think there will a  few of them.  If those floor-crossers side with the Conservatives, then it’s all over for the Liberals for at least 4 more years.

So yeah Dion, keep talking up that big election you keep saying or predicting, is going to happen.

Steph and the Liberals are not in a position to assume that they would fare any better in a general election than they did in the by-elections in BC and Saskatchewan yesterday. And their Toronto victories, well it is going to take a lot more than Ontario to prevent the Conservatives from forming a majority government in the next general election.

As for the NDP in all this; I don’t where the federal NDP candidates stand in BC, but I assuming that the actions of former NDP provincial governments in the past, has caused some federal NDP candidates in BC much grief over the years.

Oh well, it doesn’t matter.

Steph is on drugs if he thinks his party will do any better in a general election than they did yesterday and I’ll say it one more time, “It is time for Stephane Dion to voluntarily step down as party leader, or it’s time for the Liberal heavyweights that groomed him for the top job in the party, to remove him.” I’d advise them to do it before the next general election, whether that election is forced in two weeks from now or not. The grits couldn’t do any worse in a general election with Bob Rae at the helm, who by the way won his parliamentary seat yesterday, and they wouldn’t do any worse with Michael Ignatieff either .

Steph is a liability going into the next general election. Cut him loose now. The Liberal Party of Canada would be far better off without Stephane Dion at the helm. The sooner Steph is gone, the quicker the party’s credibility, and integrity can be restored.

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