UPDATE!! According to John Baird (on Charles Adler) Gilles Duceppe will have veto power over every single bill put forward by the coaltion.
Oh man, I do think I see the twinkling of the asteroid about to extinguish the Liberal Party as we now know it.
If it doesn’t take out Confederation first.
Related thoughts from Kelly McParland.

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Update – where SDA leads, David Asper follows!

Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 07:29:56 -0600
From: Noam D. Garrett
To: harpermustgo@hotmail.com
Subject: Harper must resign to save our party
[snip]
Please help in spreading the word about this petition to urge Harper to resign to save our party:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/resign_now_harper/

As if a fake name and Hotmail wasn’t big red flag enough …
X-Originating-IP: [192.251.226.205]
IP Address: 192.251.226.205
Hostname: anonymizer.blutmagie.de
We’ll be seeing lots of this in coming days.

John Ivison;

A person close to Mr. Ignatieff said that any deal with the Bloc Québécois and NDP struck by Mr. Dion would be a “poison chalice” for the next leader. He said that Mr. Ignatieff has the support of more than 50 of the 77 Liberal MPs, so the success or failure of a coalition proposition will depend on how the leadership candidate views any deal.
Although Mr. Ignatieff has publicly maintained the official Liberal line that the government should fall over its handling of the economy, his supporters say any coalition deal with the left-wing NDP and separatist Bloc is fraught with risk. It would only take nine Liberals to be absent from the House next Monday for the government to survive and the source said he fully expects a number of no-shows

It’s alive!

“Dion is like Frankenstein’s monster – he’s on the slab and just had a jolt of life injected into him. He’s going full tilt ahead with this coalition but his caucus isn’t going with him,” the source said.

Heh.
More – Maybe not so imaginary…

Name That Coalition!
	Coalition of the Swilling
	Two Scumbags and a Blockhead
	Bloc Torontois
	Canada Schmanada Party
	Naturally Governing Separatist Party
	The Wests Last/Best Reason to Leave
	The Raucous Porkas Caucus
	Left, Lefter And I Keel You If You Speak English
	New Libs on the Bloc
	The Faltered, The Done and the Wholly Toast
Free polls from Pollhost.com

Only three years ago, the Liberals were flush with cash, with over $17 million flowing from the government allowance and contributions from supporters.
Fast forward to 2008. Of the 305-member list of top donors from 2005, a mere dozen have contributed the maximum to the Liberals this year, even though the limit is far lower.

No party that refuses to support their own, with their own money, has the right to demand so much as a nickel from any Canadian.
So much for the “existential threat”. If you want them to exist, then get out your cheque book and shut the hell up.

As is the norm here at SDA, the best ideas come from the comments – With Kate’s permission perhaps it is time to speculate on a name for the coalition. Perhaps the Traitors, Commies and Clueless party?
My favourite so far – “The Coalition of the Swilling”
Add your own in the comments. It’s time for a new thread, anyway.
Update – already several exceptional suggestions and a first-rate rant…
New Libloq
The Progressive Pork Party
The USSR – Union of Separatists and Socialists against the Right
New Libs on the Bloc
The Raucas Porkas Caucus
Bloc Torontois
“The Treasonists… The Terminally Stupid party… The Pathological Self Preservationists… The Can You Repeat the Question Again Party… The Peoples Temple of Trudeauvia Party… The F##K Democracy Party… The Entitled to their Entitlements Party… The Canada Schmanada Party… The Don’t Vote For Me, and We’ll Seize Power Anyhow Party… The Naturally Governing Seperatist Party… The Clarity Act Seperatist Alliance… The New, New France Party… The Nationalist Socialist, Seperatist Alliance… The Gerard Kennedy Just Won’t Shut the Hell Up Party… The MSM Party… The Coup D’Etat Party… The We’re Not American Party… Sorry, I could go on, but won’t.”
Voting Has Begun – help spread the word!

Evening Update – via a reliable source:

This story started with a Canadian Press story that obviously did not understand House of Commons procedure. The Ways and Means Motion being voted on Monday is for tax measures only. The elimination of political subsidies will be in the enabling legislation for the fiscal update as planned, it will be a confidence vote.

With the Liberals held hostage, Jack Layton has reportedly laid out his list of demands – including both the finance and environment portfolios.
I told you this’d be worth it!
Bourque seems to be on top of the other news headlines, so I’l redirect you there…
Original post continues below:

Opposition hold coalition talks, Grits may dump Dion

One option under consideration is to suspend plans for the May 2 leadership convention and just go straight to the cage match…. developing….
Updates:
A CBC poll goes horribly wrong.
Breaking – after calls to the Saskatchewan “a leadership convention date has yet to be decided” Liberals produced a “this number is no longer in service” message, opposition parties are reported to be seeking advice on coalition-forming from Jean “when I’m finished with Paul Martin he won’t get elected dog-catcher” Chretien.
ROTFLMAO Update… via John Gormley Live. … With the opposition parties on record vowing to take down the government over the “lack of a stimulus package” in the economic update … Harper The Merciful has announced he’ll remove the party funding portion and separate it from the confidence vote… developing…
To the Liberal/NDP supporters whining that the CPC is exploiting the opposition’s financial vulnerability to play “partisan games”, I offer this advice – get out your checkbooks and shut the hell up.

BREAKING: New Democrat challenges American to replace French citizen* for leadership of the Liberal Party Of Canada… developing….
* Quite so.

“Down to Three White Guys”.

By the twiddling of his thumbs, something Ignatieff this way comes;

Stéphane Dion is refusing to delay his Green Shift plan if he forms a government although his deputy leader, Michael Ignatieff, says he’d consider changes to the scheme because of the difficult economic times.
“I know that the contrary has been said in the papers,” Mr. Dion said in French to reporters Thursday in Halifax.
But he said that Mr. Ignatieff had confirmed a shared view with Mr. Dion that the Green Shift plan would stimulate the economy.
On Wednesday, as Mr. Dion was defending his Green Shift plan to reporters and saying he would not delay it or change it if he became Prime Minister, Mr. Ignatieff was telling a different story to the editorial board of Montreal’s La Presse newspaper.
[…]
Yesterday, Mr. Ignatieff tried to clarify his remarks to La Presse. But his comments still appeared contradictory. In a telephone interview, he said, that the Green Shift plan is “the condition for the economic survival.”

Don’t forget to Vote!

Part deux;

It’s ironic that the guy known for stooping to any low to win, has to come out of retirement to school the Doomsday Quadruplets in the intricasies of public confidence in our institutions. Where is the media in pointing out this amateur hour of Chicken Littles.

They’re busy missing the sound of Bob Rae, sharpening his knife.

With the possibility of a Liberal minority looming, which of these is the most likely?
	Rae will plunge a knife into the Dion campaign.
	Ignatieff will plunge a knife in the Dion campaign
	CP: “2 unidentified Liberals injured in freak bagel slicing accident”
pollcode.com free polls

Every bottle comes complete with its own paper bag.

Adscam was small potatoes in the Libranos legacy;

A seasoned, 30-year career Canadian diplomat, Mr. McAdam’s assignments included London, Copenhagen, Barbados, Amman, Bangkok, Bogota, Dublin, Helsinki, Glasgow, Tokyo and, twice, Hong Kong.
His second Hong Kong posting, 1989 to 1993, as immigration control officer, included responsibility for southern China. He was tasked with protecting Canada from international people-smuggling rings, murderers and drug-smuggling, organized criminals from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong.
It was his last posting.

Read the whole thing. Finally, Donna Jacobs is doing what the rest of the mainstream media “investigative journalists” should hang in their heads in shame over.
Flashback – to his credit, Peter Worthington wasn’t afraid to mention the Sidewinder report in an op-ed in 2005. A search of SDA will turn up other old items, though some of the links are now dead. If anyone has the link to the once available surviving copy of the original Sidewinder report (officially ordered destroyed by the Chretien government), let me know, and I’ll rehost them myself.
Update – here it is. Sidewinder: Chinese Intelligence Services and Triads Financial Links in Canada.

No brown envelopes for you, young Liberal!

Karlheinz Schreiber takes a turn for the credible;

Conservative MP Russ Hiebert: Can you tell the committee the name of the justice minister who signed your surrender order for extradition to Germany on Oct. 31, 2004?
Karlheinz Schreiber: From my recollection this was Mr. [Irwin] Cotler.
Conservative MP Russ Hiebert: Could you tell me which political party Mr. Cotler is a member of?
Karlheinz Schreiber: Liberal party.
Conservative MP Russ Hiebert: So is it your testimony that the Liberal party is also part of this quote ‘conspiracy and cover-up’?
Karlheinz Schreiber: Yes, they initiated the whole thing against me in Germany in 1995.

Heh.

Previous mockery.
(source)

Google cache of http://www.warrenkinsella.com/ as retrieved on 18 Nov 2007 12:38:42 GMT
The same page captured yesterday…

From a reader who knows of what he speaks;

The Liberals were only interested in Perception- making sure the Musical Ride was performing well. They knew for years that a lot of experienced Officers would be retiring in a short time frame 2002 -2009 and basically did nothing about it. If the total RCMP budget didn’t have sufficient funds, they had to make difficult choices, hence a lot of their National & Federal policing units were cannibalized, including the Public Integrity unit. Who benefited? The criminal organizations are now doing $50 billion /yr.( counterfeiting & MJ are $40 billion alone). With that type of money, who can’t they buy off?
They have lost a lot of experience in the past few years and the only hope is that Veteran Officers have a full and frank discussion with the Brown Commission, top investigators are rehired or retained and that ample resources are provided. They have never been given proper resources to make up for the extra work that is needed for Charter compliance. The paperwork eats up 10 -20% more manpower- manpower that could be doing investigations or patrol work.
When the Liberals didn’t provide adequate funding, the major crooks had a field day. The major busts have been few and far between. The last were about 10 years ago with the Cuntrera/ Caruana Org and maybe a handful of others- out of 10,000 major players. That’s the real Liberal legacy. Now the chickens are coming home to roost and the anti police media are having a field day. The fact that young inexperienced officers were killed at Mayerthorpe and in the North shouldn’t be a surprise and with the bulk having less than 5 years experience, there will unfortunately be more problems that exacerbate the underfunding and understaffing.
The defence lawyers love the negative stories about the Mounties, makes it easier to get their clients off or get a reduced sentence- the credibility issue. The Liberals left these problems for the Tories- unfortunately it will get worse before it gets better unless some bold steps are taken in the short term. It’s difficult to change a major organization overnight no matter what good intentions people may have.

Check out the comments at Jack’s Newswatch – “What’s really killing the Mounties”