posted: 6:40am,PDT, 30 Mar.'10 Metro News Edmonton
Tories seeking Grit knockout blow, Lawrence Martin, 30 March 2010
http://www.metronews.ca/edmonton/comment/article/490721--tories-seeking-grit-knockout-blow
There is no secret to Stephen Harper and the Con's raising money. Their supporters contribute. There is also no secret to Harper and the Con's die-hard support of approx 33%. Their supporters are united behind their party.
Eliminating the 'the per-vote subsidy' may hurt and the Liberal Party may have to dig in and bite the bullet, there is little doubt about that.
However, it may just be the wake-up call for the 67% that don't want Harper and the Con's running this great nation of ours and motivate them to action, both through funding and support.
It may very well be the catalyst that causes the middle and left to set aside their polarizing differences and rally under one banner, which would in all likelihood be the Liberals. Last time the co-alition agreement between the Liberals and NDP pre-empted this effect and it may very well have been that the middle and left would have joined together in a common cause despite what their Parties and leaders were doing.
Although the general 'wisdom' on this is that the Governor General would agree to call an election. It is not automatic that she would not go to Parliament to ask it to form another government first, especially if this coalescing has progressed sufficiently. On the other hand, even if she (or he, depending) did call an election. Harper and the Con's may learn first hand that their extremism has gone too far.
The path to saving this great nation of our from the extreme right wing ideologies and nation dismantling of Harper and the Con's may very well be painful and may very well require a fight. It may very well take an 'Archangel'.
Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.html