Will the PM get away with his risky election gambit? Probably
Book it: election in October. It's a gambit straight out of Stephen Harper's catechism. "When I say jump, you say how high?"
This time, he's going to strange lengths. To get his way, the Prime Minister made it clear yesterday he will pull the plug on his own government. Even though it involves some dicey dealing, better for him to set the date, he reasoned, than leave it to the antagonists.
The opposition, Mr. Harper told the media, was not willing to co-operate with him on his agenda. Hogwash, replied Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion. Agenda? You don't even have one. "What is it?"
The agenda is clear enough: to get the election out of the way before likely by-election losses, before the appearance of Julie Couillard's book, before the U.S. election, before more bad news on the economy and other fronts can hit.
I could have told Rosie this........
There was a time," Rosie DiManno writes in the Star, "when I thought liberals—or Liberals, as in the case of the Democrats—were, to their credit, the party of the party-animals, the rogues, the roués, the bacchanalians, the hedonists, the broad-minded, the sophisticated, the unconventional, the free expressionists and free lovers, the ones without a 2-by-4 up their butts."
Denver, with its recycling patrols, rampant sobriety and overweening earnestness, has disavowed her of this notion forever.
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