Stephen Harper says, "We have to make gains in Ontario to make gains nationally"Apparently, according to the Conservative handbook the way to accomplish such gains is to...
- Fire Conservative candidates in Ontario who are trying to connect with local values instead of following national party lines.
- Ignore cities
- Shortchange the province on the number of seats in House of Commons.
- Call the premier, who has every right to stick up for his province, a "small man of confederation"
Yes Steph, that's the way to go about it.
3 comments:
Yeah, it's much better to parachute candidates in ridings to be "politically correct." Who gives a rat's about democracy and candidate selection anyway?
And if you want to talk about shortchanging of seats in Ontario, why wasn't this brought up when it first became an issue...that is, when the Liberals were in power. It wasn't an "issue" then was it?
Anonymous, I agree the short changing of Ontario was happening under the Liberals as well. The difference here though is the Conservatives made a big deal of "fixing" what the Liberals had done. They have not. So, Liberals bad. Tories also bad.
The problem here is that Harper and his crew, while they want to make inroads in Ontario, they can't get past their disdain for the province. It seems that they are too stubborn in their views towards Ontario to be able to actually implement their strategy. The seat distribution is the perfect example. It was about enticing Ontarians with the idea that we'd get more representation but when they were called on the holes in the plan, they reacted like a little child and called our premier names.
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