Jack Layton's announcement Monday, October 22, 2007 at 10:49 PM
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Tomorrow morning. Nine sharp. NDP leader Jack Layton to speak to his caucus and to the national media.
Feel free to post what you think the announcement will be.
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Let me start the wild speculation. Someone is switching parties. Someone from the Liberal left, fed up with the abandonment of Kyoto by Stephane Dion, has moved to the NDP.
Posted by: Steve Janke at October 22, 2007 10:53 PM
The merger of...the NDP and Liberal parties? No wait, it would be a joint announcement with whats his name.
I say Jack'll be making a request to be the official opposition since Dion won't do it.
Posted by: Paul M at October 22, 2007 11:03 PM
My fellow NDPers:
I have brought you here together today to inform you that I have joined with Stephane Dion and agreed to merge the NDP and Liberal parties to Stop Harper and his scary Conservative agenda.
Yesterday I met with top Liberal executives and supporters like Paul Desmarais, who I think you all know,and they made me an offer I couldn't refuse.
I have concluded that the only way to remove Harper from government is to unite the centre-left and then vote non-confidence asap so the Harper government will resign and try to have another election Canadians do not want.
With the Liberal 96 seats and our 30 seats, totalling 126 seats, we will tell the GG that we are prepared to form a government, and thus avoid an election Canadians do not want.
I know you will all greet this news with great enthusiasm and expectation, because most everybody in our NDP caucus will get cabinet positions in a Dion government, and I will be Minister of Finance.
So let's get out there and whip Stephen Harper's butt outa government and let's look forward to running this country as it should be run. BTW .. Canadian troops will be staying in Afghanistan until February 2009 as a matter of commitments made to the UN.
In order to maintain a united party solidarity, please do not say anything confusing to the MSM, because the less said the better it is. All communication with the MSM should be made through our new leader Dion and myself as Minister of Finance.
This is a great great day for Canada, and I know you will all be pleased as punch that we will soon be the government of Canada .. and then watch out ..!!!!
Posted by: Observer at October 22, 2007 11:06 PM
Nicely done Observer.
Posted by: Paul M at October 22, 2007 11:08 PM
I think Jack may want to grandstand on the United nations report on "homelessness" which just came out.
Posted by: Lorraine at October 22, 2007 11:15 PM
Svend stole the ring for Dumbeldor.
Posted by: Larry at October 23, 2007 12:31 AM
Larry = hehe
Two annoucements, Jack will annouce that he is the official opposition and that he will seek that recognition from the GG with the blessings of all non-Liberal members of the house.
Secondly, he will explain his freakishly small hands...
Posted by: northbaytrapper at October 23, 2007 12:39 AM
btw, Steve, in regards to your idea, if a Lib was to jump ship for the Dippers, it would be catastrophic to the Liberal Party. Throw in a brand name MP and you can close the book on Dion.
Maybe it's Belinda? No, that would mean that she was sleeping with Michael Ignatief and that's just disgusting.
Posted by: northbaytrapper at October 23, 2007 12:42 AM
Well, my first thought was that a prominent Quebecer would announce their bid to run for the NDP in the next election. However, Jack wouldn't make that announcement in Ottawa, I don't think.
Then something occurred to me. What if a BLOC member, or even two or three, decided to jump ship to the NDP?
Liberals and NDPers generally don't like one another. The same isn't true of the Bloc and the NDP, especially for soft Quebec nationalists.
I still doubt the announcement will be any kind of big deal like this, in part because there's usually more buzz leading up to it than there is now, but since we are speculating ;)....
Posted by: Dennis (Second Thots) at October 23, 2007 01:07 AM
Does the NDP accept floor crossers? I thought they tried to introduce legislation to ban it.
Posted by: Brendan Kane at October 23, 2007 02:23 AM
Here's what I just found in an article from the Winnipeg Sun:
In a bid to exploit what he characterizes as a leadership vacuum in the Liberal party, NDP Leader Jack Layton is trying to portray his party as the real opposition to the Harper government.
Layton will host an "opposition school" today, flying in NDP staff from across the country to advise MPs on procedural rules and tactics to keep the government on its toes.
http://winnipegsun.com/News/Canada/2007/10/23/4597713-sun.html
Posted by: Brendan Kane at October 23, 2007 03:09 AM
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