While the media titters about events of the past 24 or so hours, few seem to have noticed that Paul Martin has quietly withdrawn his commitment to calling a post-Gomery election.
April 21, 2005
I commit to you tonight that I will call a general election within 30 days of the publication of the commission’s final report and recommendations. Let Judge Gomery do his work. Let the facts come out. And then the people of Canada will have their say.
Ms. Stronach will assume responsibilities for democratic renewal and will help guide the implementation of the recommendations that flow from the Gomery Commission’s final report.
Thankyou. Now we return you to regularly scheduled Belindarella programming.
Who needs elections? Liberal rule forever.
I am Shocked. Shocked I am!
I actually believed martin’s promise of an election 30 days after Gomery’s report. Now I feel so betrayed and dirty…
OK, sarcasm off…
Harper just gave Martin the keys to Parliment for the next 4 years. All Martin needs to do is continue to appease the NDP and spend, spend, spend.
5 more years! will be the chant 4 years from now.
Time to seriously give the WCC some serious thought.
“A politician’s words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.”
— George F. Will
OK, I am all speculation, all the time…
The Liberals will want an election and will make sure they fall tomorrow. Then they will not have a Gomery election because we will already have had one. This will be easy to sell because it is more correct that most of the B.S. they have sold over the next couple of weeks.
The election will bring a stronger Liberal minority gov’t wherein the NDP will truly have the balance of power and we get a coalition gov’t for 2-3 years.
…can you tell I am a tad grumpy today?
Now might be the right time to revisit Ezra Levant’s April 25th Sun column: Believe It or Not
“While the media titters about events of the past 24 or so hours”
Didn’t they have Carolyn Parrish being expelled to titter about, on the same day Martin declined to join Ballistic Missile Defence?
Libranos have their own version of the suicide bomber to feed MSM..
Martin is the spouter/shiller of the Big Lie technique:
There is no mandate for Judge Gomery to make any “recommendations” to anyone, any body, to no one in parliament, nor to the law, nor the Canadian people.
The “final report” goes to the Liberal caucus; there it will be buried forever; in the valley of the dry bones of the Liberals. RIP, Gomery Inquiry “report”.
Democracy and freedom in Canada are dead.
You and your vote shall resurrect freedom and
democracy in Canada.
Your vote is the last best hope.
The decision is yours.
Yes. No. What is your verdict?
You are looking at exactly what I was thinking yesteday. Check out http://hobbes1970.blogspot.com/2005/05/taking-bets.html to see what I mean.
Greg, You are not allowed to feel a tad grumpy. Don’t you know that upsets both the Liberal and the Conservatives who know what’s best for you. After all, you are the one who’s living between your ears and you should pay attention only to what the Libs and the CPC put there. So smarten up! Don’t write nastygrams to Blogs,pay your taxes faithfully (extra if you’re a loyal Canadian)don’t contact your MP (after all he has better things to do than listen to a whiny constituent) and above all, don’t critize Ontario.
Now be a good boy and go play with your toys.
AND YOU THINK YOU ARE GRUMPY!
Just be thankful that there’s no proportional representation..
If that had been the case, we wouldn’t even be talking about this stuff. The bloc would have only 12% of the seats. The conservatives would have had more seats, but so would the NDP and Liberals (and Green party who got 5% this time)
You conservatives are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Catch up with the country, we’re overwhelmingly socialist. Live with it!
mockpuppet, Should I assume you’re a product of the Canadian education system? You acknowledge that under PR, the Bloq would go from 54 down to 37 seats, but then you say that the Conservatives, NDP, and Liberals, plus the Greens, would each have more seats? (With, according to your 5% figure, 15 of those seats going Green.)
No wonder some folks cry out for socialism – they can’t do math, and need someone else to support them.
Oops. I meant to comment further on the substance of Kate’s original post, that the “30-day” promise was evidence (not conclusive, but evidence) that Martin never intended to implement any of Gomery’s recommendations.
After all, if the report came out in December, the writ drops in January. The election is mid-March, and the House returns in April. By the time Martin has a Throne Speech and gets caught up on other pressing matters, he’s into the summer. At which time he would be likely to say that Gomery is in the past, let’s put it behind us and move on. And who would stop him?
As much as like to think the worst of Paul Martin and his crew, this doesn’t seem much different to me than the budget promises they make for five years out. Don’t all governments plan, at least publicly, based on the assumption they will govern forever?