Personally, I'd rather have an election, and keep having elections if need be. I understand how unpopular elections are these days, though, so I guess having elections is undemocratic. ;P
I'm uneasy about what changing governments like this will do to the country. I don't mean what the coalition itself will do; sure, I'd rather have a Liberal-NDP(-Bloc) coalition than a Conservative government, all other things being equal (although obviously there is a good chance that the coalition would be a farce, which would heighten the probability of a Conservative majority in the next election, though there would be a good chance it would not be led by Harper. It might also be the push that the NDP needs to finally overtake the Liberals, which I think might be a mixed blessing at best.) I mean that the West wanted in, the West got in, and now the East is conspiring to kick the West out again. I suspect the Western Block Party is going to become a lot more popular. I can't imagine it ever leading to (some part of) the West actually separating, but living indefinitely with Western resentment can't be good for the country.
I wonder if (and hope that) one result of all this might be to make some left-leaning Quebecois nationalists, including Duceppe, think that maybe it might be time for the Bloc to get the hell out of the way. Duceppe has obviously come around to the view that the Conservatives have outlived their de-centralizing usefulness, and since sovereignty is really no longer on the table, the best way to serve Quebec's interests (not to mention the generally leftish politics of most sovereigntists) would be the old-fashioned way, through the Liberal party--or, even better, through a new Liberal-NDP formation....
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Date: 2008-12-02 07:34 pm (UTC)I'm uneasy about what changing governments like this will do to the country. I don't mean what the coalition itself will do; sure, I'd rather have a Liberal-NDP(-Bloc) coalition than a Conservative government, all other things being equal (although obviously there is a good chance that the coalition would be a farce, which would heighten the probability of a Conservative majority in the next election, though there would be a good chance it would not be led by Harper. It might also be the push that the NDP needs to finally overtake the Liberals, which I think might be a mixed blessing at best.) I mean that the West wanted in, the West got in, and now the East is conspiring to kick the West out again. I suspect the Western Block Party is going to become a lot more popular. I can't imagine it ever leading to (some part of) the West actually separating, but living indefinitely with Western resentment can't be good for the country.
I wonder if (and hope that) one result of all this might be to make some left-leaning Quebecois nationalists, including Duceppe, think that maybe it might be time for the Bloc to get the hell out of the way. Duceppe has obviously come around to the view that the Conservatives have outlived their de-centralizing usefulness, and since sovereignty is really no longer on the table, the best way to serve Quebec's interests (not to mention the generally leftish politics of most sovereigntists) would be the old-fashioned way, through the Liberal party--or, even better, through a new Liberal-NDP formation....