An alarming trend has developed in Paul Martin's floundering election campaign: the head of our responsible government refuses to take responsibility for just about anything . As we know, two Liberal cabinet ministers staged <A href="http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Arti
Tonight I saw the first half hour of The National 's Your Say with Jack Layton . It was a good performance. Layton didn't pretend to have all the easy answers, instead he engaged in a real discussion with the audience. That bought him the kind of credibility th
Here at Canuckistan we are going have to seriously consider a policy of limiting our coverage of polls, as I believe we're focusing too much on the horserace. However, like the CBC, we will likely break that promise as fast as having made it. Should, on the other hand, support for the NDP begin to
I meant compared to past election results. The NDP's best share of the popular vote was 20% under Ed Broadbent in 1988. Undecideds are high this time around.
Clarity certainly has put a damper on the separatist movement -- so far. But it's also provoked a lot of anger. Really we have to be more mindful of the future. After two failed referenda, the short term prospects weren't very good for a separatism when Clarity was passed anyway. Separatism can only suceed if Québecers are disillusioned in general -- not just about federalism. For example, it's no surprise that both referenda so far were calle
I don't understand what's going on with the wild Liberal/Conservative swings, but they've now got the NDP at a record high: As of May 30th: Party
Serious question: does The Clarity Act clarify anything? More to the point, will it -- in the long run -- help avoid Québec separation? Everyone would reflexively answer 'yes', I'm sure. But look a little deeper. We know The Clarity Act gives the federal government and the provinc
CPAC and SES Research are conducting a joint tracking poll, public released each day during the election campaign. Sign up. As of May 29th: <TABLE border=0 width=20
Leslie McKinnon, CBC News, Toronto : "First, there is no evidence of a 'rapid rise' in deaths of homeless people in Toronto, in the years Jack Layton was talking about." </T
The CBC's story was highly inaccurate, as I'll detail later.
Jack Layton : "I believe that when Paul cancelled affordable housing across this country it produced a dramatic r
It seems more than a little ironic that Susan Delacourt, author of Juggernaut , should write <A href="http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=108560941284
UPDATE: The Toronto Star is reporting much larger numbers regarding both tax cuts and increases. More information will be available soon, when the NDP posts it's full platform online. UPDATE II: Apparently the the NDP's tax plan does not include $9.5 billion in tax increases, as originally posted, but ac
Prime Minister Paul Martin unveiled his healthcare platform yesterday. It was billed as a generational plan for Canadian Medicare. But the Liberal plan turns out to be little more than a numbers game -- and Martin still falls $700 million short of closing the Romanow gap. Let's get right to the Enron-sty
So, the Paul Martin Liberals have gotta brand spanking new ad . Go watch, I'll wait. While everything the ad says is true, it still manages to be shamelessly dishonest. This is the same <A href="http://www.canadaone.com/ezine/briefs.
Certainly the way forward in reducing healthcare costs involves an acknowledgement of New Growth Economics regarding patents, research funding and single-payer/bulk buying. As economist Paul Romer said knowledge is not private good, and markets are illequipped to allocate it efficiently. In others words, once the research is done we can provide prescription drugs to as many people as we want with virtually no marginal cost. But for drug compan
Well, the funniest line of the campaign so far has got to be from the NDP's " Reality Check ": "The Liberals are right about one thing: Jack Layton
Layton has already made it clear that a referendum on proportional representation will be pre-condition in any minority coalition. This promise goes all the way back to the start of the leadership campaign, and I'm pretty sure it's one Layton will keep. The next three areas of focus would probably Romanow, Kyoto and cities, but I don't know about the order of priority. I think openess in government will probably come up too, if for no other re
Ian Welsh , the moderate conservative blogger at Tilting at Windmills and BlogsCanada eGroup , offers these thoughts as the election begins: <TABLE border=0 width=450
Horse Race : Good: "A new Ipsos-Reid poll, conducted for The Globe and Mail and CTV this week, showed the Libe
As we all know , Liberals and Conservatives launched attack websites against one another this week, StephenHarperSaid.ca and <A href="http://www.teammartinsaid.ca/
Medisys, Paul Martin's private healthcare provider, was apparently amongst those Jean Chrétien threatened to have shutdown in 2000:
Yeah, it's not like he's tellin' the rest of us!
Two weeks ago, Canadians learned that Paul Martin frequents a Montreal based private healthcare provider . It appears, however, that Medisys -- Martin's clinic -- not only provides private medical services, but ma
Sy Hersh blows the Abu Ghraib prison torture story wide open. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Under-Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone approved a black ops interrogation program to used in Iraqi prisons -- a program orig
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