Saturday, October 18, 2003
Merger Mania
The "unite the right issue" dominates the news in Canada again today. The Saturday editions of the paper are chock-full of coverage. Both the Post and Globe had really excellent profiles of Belinda Stronach, the Magna International Inc. CEO, and her role in making this happen.
Due to my obvious biases, I particularly like the lead editorial in today's National Post.
It is vitally important for pro-unity members of both parties to join the other party to make this go through. It is most important for CAers to join the Tories, however, as they have a much bigger fight on their hands.
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The "unite the right issue" dominates the news in Canada again today. The Saturday editions of the paper are chock-full of coverage. Both the Post and Globe had really excellent profiles of Belinda Stronach, the Magna International Inc. CEO, and her role in making this happen.
Due to my obvious biases, I particularly like the lead editorial in today's National Post.
It is vitally important for pro-unity members of both parties to join the other party to make this go through. It is most important for CAers to join the Tories, however, as they have a much bigger fight on their hands.
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Friday, October 17, 2003
Thursday, October 16, 2003
Joe Clark, not a conservative
Joe Clark is the best proof living of the old adage that you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Today Mr. Clark publicly announced he is opposed to the deal to merge the PC and Alliance parties. This is not a surprise. Joe has never supported creating a single conservative party because he is still stuck in the 1980s. I feel sorry for Mr. Clark. He's so out of touch, it's kind of sad.
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Joe Clark is the best proof living of the old adage that you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Today Mr. Clark publicly announced he is opposed to the deal to merge the PC and Alliance parties. This is not a surprise. Joe has never supported creating a single conservative party because he is still stuck in the 1980s. I feel sorry for Mr. Clark. He's so out of touch, it's kind of sad.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Calder's hubris
Just saw the Liberal MP for Dufferin-Peel-Wellington-Grey, Murray Calder, proclaim on CBC that voters will reject the new merged conservative party because when they go to the polls they'll say "if it ain't broke, no need to fix it." I love it. This is exactly the kind of arrogance that is going to cost Liberals like Mr. Calder his seat in the next election.
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Just saw the Liberal MP for Dufferin-Peel-Wellington-Grey, Murray Calder, proclaim on CBC that voters will reject the new merged conservative party because when they go to the polls they'll say "if it ain't broke, no need to fix it." I love it. This is exactly the kind of arrogance that is going to cost Liberals like Mr. Calder his seat in the next election.
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Right to Unite
After years of toil and sweat, the right is (apparently) uniting. This is a really memorable day. It still hasn't sunk in yet. We must resist the temptation to declare victory too early, however, as both parties must approve this deal in a grassroots vote. The Tories may have a battle on their hands, with David Orchard and his cronies sure to get organized to kill this.
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After years of toil and sweat, the right is (apparently) uniting. This is a really memorable day. It still hasn't sunk in yet. We must resist the temptation to declare victory too early, however, as both parties must approve this deal in a grassroots vote. The Tories may have a battle on their hands, with David Orchard and his cronies sure to get organized to kill this.
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Harper MacKay: Rule yourselves out of running for leader
Much ink has been spilled on the subject of uniting the right in Canada. There is (was?)apparently a desire for the leaders of the two parties, Peter MacKay and Stephen Harper, to meet again early this week to see if anything can be done to salvage this. They have not yet met, but I hope they do and that they can hash something out – both men have invested far too much stock in this process to have it fail now. If it does fail, the credibility of both parties will be shot. It has to go through.
It looks like one of the main problems is that they are both trying to get some kind of tactical advantage over one another. In Harper’s case, I think it’s because he wants to run for leader of the new party. Both of these men should put the good of the conservative movement, their parties and the country itself ahead of their ambition and rule themselves out of the running for the top job in a new party. This would remove any doubt that these negotiations are being done in good faith.
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Much ink has been spilled on the subject of uniting the right in Canada. There is (was?)apparently a desire for the leaders of the two parties, Peter MacKay and Stephen Harper, to meet again early this week to see if anything can be done to salvage this. They have not yet met, but I hope they do and that they can hash something out – both men have invested far too much stock in this process to have it fail now. If it does fail, the credibility of both parties will be shot. It has to go through.
It looks like one of the main problems is that they are both trying to get some kind of tactical advantage over one another. In Harper’s case, I think it’s because he wants to run for leader of the new party. Both of these men should put the good of the conservative movement, their parties and the country itself ahead of their ambition and rule themselves out of the running for the top job in a new party. This would remove any doubt that these negotiations are being done in good faith.
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