The Income Trust Scandal: Election timing
Bet the Liberals and their supporters are furious at Jack Layton and the NDP for supporting Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party decision to hold an election now.
Remember, if we had followed the Liberal timetable, the election wouldn't have started for another couple of months, assuming Jean Chretien didn't succeed in getting the second Gomery Report delayed with his appeal to federal court. As it turns out, the Income Trust Scandal has exploded in the middle of the campaign, instead of being old news.
With that sort of fury gnawing at them, I wonder how difficult it is going to be for the Liberals put on a false smile and try to appeal to the NDP to support them against the Conservatives. And with the massive gash and uncontrolled hemorrhaging being suffered by the Liberals from the Income Trust Scandal blowing open, on top of Klander's slander and "beer and popcorn", how many NDP voters are reconsidering whether a vote for the Liberals is a strategic vote or a wasted one.
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I bet that polls will not move.
Posted by: george at December 29, 2005 11:15 AM
If this had been a Conservative government we would have been in 1993 territory by now.
Posted by: The Fog is Clearing at December 29, 2005 11:27 AM
In viewing CTV,s interview with RG on Canada AM: Finance Minister Ralph Goodale, it would seem that RG is spinning the investigation as arising out of the fact that we are in and election campaign and that voters should see it in that context. That's rich by any stretch.
Posted by: W.Verwey at December 29, 2005 04:45 PM
Good point. Who is most able to put political influence on the RCMP? The Liberals. And yet the Commissioner of the RCMP himself - the guy who owes his appointment to the Liberals - decides this is a story so important, Canadians had to know about it BEFORE they made their judgment in the election. If he had wanted to put up a red flag and sound a siren, he couldn't have been more obvious. To blame the election campaign is futile. Only the most brain-dead moron could buy that.
So, Liberal for Life, I hear you agree with Goodale!
Posted by: Patrick at December 29, 2005 05:12 PM
 
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