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.
Valeriote added he does not believe a Liberal-NDP coalition, with support from the Bloc Quebecois, will unseat the Tories.
Update – Here come the Cossacks to the rescue!
Throughout this entire seditious mess it is amazing to watch the MSM’s spin on making Harper’s “Catastrophic bungling of any economic stimulus ” (Oh, like he’s single handily responsible FOR the global melt-down) and “nasty partisan politics and intransigence” THE reason why the Liberals felt compelled to “save us.”
On the other hand why the hell don’t the Conservatives point out that Harper has TWO degrees in ECONOMICS and just might have a slightly better grasp of the situation than a sociology professor, a communist wanna-be and a separatist? We do NOT need typical knee jerk reaction SPENDING which is the hallmark of the incompetent.
Finally I’d like to point out that SEDITION needn’t be an armed insurrection. It is described as “”the stirring up of discontent, resistance, or rebellion against the legitimate government in power.”” Les Twois Stoogies should feel lucky to be in Canada … most other places in the world they’d be shot and their wives and children sold into slavery!!
The Communists’ support for the coalition is going to badly damage the Conservatives’ support outside the GTA. Mark my word.
CBC really shaped their news broadcast on The National tonight against Harper. On the other hand, they covered the “Separatist Coalition” issue so much, that maybe it will sink in with Canadians that the Quebec Block really is a separatist party. One Quebecer interviewed said Harper is trying to “scare” Canadians about the Block. Maybe Quebecers don’t realize that many in the rest of Canada have always been scared of the Block…or, at the very least, resentful of their regional self-interest.
Hey Kate:
Careful with the Cossack thing.
My ancestors on my father’s side are Cossacks and they protected the Czar from the Commies.
Made it kinda inconvenient to live in the country after a while.
“Made it kinda inconvenient to live in the country after a while.”
Fond of understatements huh?
Dear lord, don’t let Layton near that Commie Press release, he might get more ideas.
“Where on earth were the Radical Left thugs in our country educated? Were they all kicked around in their childhood and are now seeking their revenge?”
Robert, some people just never grow up and have an in-built inability to admit they were wrong. It’s a character flaw that inhibits one’s ability to develop and learn as an individual.
Needless to say, there are those who wish to encourage this extended childhood for their own questionable purposes.
Most of us here already know this, I suspect you do too.
I lived in Alberta during trudeaus nep. I lived in Alberta and Sask. during the decade of darkness under cretin and martin. Now these same elitists assholes want to reverse the Western votes and say sorry Westerners, your votes don’t count.
If this coalition goes ahead, I can’t for the life of me think of a better reason to go to war against them. There comes a time when a person must stand for something he or she believes in. I believe in God and standing up against evil.
I have been doing alot of thinking these past few days. Either we stand up now against this tyranny or we just quietly march off to the gulags. I don’t feel like marching myself. If they want a war, and it appears they do, then war it is.
Do you think it will ever improve for Westerners? The east will always come out on top. Our votes are useless. This country has been stacked against the West since Confederation.
Just watching all the attacks by the left and the press against Harper and in fact all Westerners, makes me realize these people really do not like us and will never let us have a true voice in this country.
If this comes to pass, this unholy trinity of lunatics, I will spend however long I have left fighting against them any way I have to. I will fight for an independant Western Republic.
The Liberals and NDP are not a coalition. They do not have nearly enough seats.
It doesn’t matter that the Bloc will support them, as long as they have veto rights (aka blackmail).
The Bloc must be part of the coalition, otherwise there isn’t one.
Kinsella is just showing his survival instincts, not any sense of morality. He doesn’t like the idea of being a member of a rump party. It’ll hurt book sales.
These MP’s are the “feelers” from the Iggy campaign. If they get some kind of positive response then Iggy will cut a deal with the PM and take his MP’s with him.
Here is a thought….a business is so drowned in debt you you are left with the question, should I buy it and keep my obligations or should I just build a new one. Often it is cheaper to build a new one, new culture, no past debts….Expect to see the “I” party, as int eh Independent Liberal Party or Independent Party start up.
Fresh, looks like the old Liberal party but with no legacy.
Medium term serious threat to Harper, but gets him through today, and is likely a party he can deal with.
And Bob and Iggy get to be leaders.
Change of topic…..part of the reason this colaition thing ticks me off is the Liberals and Layton have given us Sovereignty Association. They didnt intend to, they didnt realize it, but you have a Quebec nationalist party as a serious partner, all major decisions need to be checked with them and they will extract a price.
If this was about an ideological coalition only, ie the death of sovereignty, then I wouldnt be as concerned, the Cons will pick up a few more seats since Quebec has a conservative ideological part to it. This isnt about that, thats the patina, but for the Bloc tis is S-A and layton and Dion/Rae are too dense to see it.
You knew it had to happen. This is why Stephen Harper should simply let the opposition parties continue heading towards the cliff; there should be no prorogation. Either the federalists on the opposition benches will stand up and be counted, or they will not. My feeling is, they will. What they are probably really hoping for though, is that they won’t have too.
Kevin @9:27 am. Agree.
Where is the constitutional support for a side-deal that? GG has to ignore that, it has no constitutional basis.
If Dion asserts he has the confidence of the House, he should be made to prove it.
This gives the true Federalists in the LPC the opportunity to show Canadians where they stand.
A failure to support the unity of Canada, overtly, by voting non-confidence in a coalition that exists only at the whim of a party dedicated to the destruction of the federation, would being the anglo version of the Clarity Act.
If the LPC is tuned in to the grassroots in any meaningful way, they ought to be realizing, as the gentleman from Guelph did, that they are vaporizing their support in Ontario.
Failure to stand up right now and support the federation will relegate the LPC to a regional party only – Quebec, where the best they can hope for is to duke it out with the BQ henceforth.
The media is trying to spin Quebec Separation is something other than Quebec Separation. They might as well be trying to tell us the sky is orange. Canadians are not buying that load of fertilizer either.
Perhaps PMSH should let the confidence vote proceed, and we should just let the LPC impale itself on the great big Green Mistake it tried to foist off on us.
They should not forget that the Green Mistake is all over Youtube now, reminding Canadians of the bald lie that he would not entertain a coalition with the NDP.
Roll the dice Dion. Long term, I think the outcome is good for the country. Either your own “cleaners” take care of you, or your far-left masters will march the LPC off to the far-left wilderness for a long, long time. Either way, the LPC is finito unless it demonstrates to Canadians that they are willing to pay more than lip service to Canadian unity.
Scratch that… apparently he’s contacted the paper and claims that his comments have been miscronstrude… still developing… http://guelphmercury.blogs.com/guelphvotes/2008/12/shortterm-maverick.html
Guess the almighty “PARTY” has go to him already
Luke: Dear lord, don’t let Layton near that Commie Press release, he might get more ideas.
Hmmm. Confused now. Could you please point out to me where that release differs from the actual NDP platform.
Oh man, am I loving this!
Thanx Kate.
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