It’s official. The Canadian Government fell in today’s vote of non confidence, the PM Paul Martin will go to GG Micha√´lle Jean on Tuesday morning their time to ask for a dissolution. The vote was 171 to 133, with all Liberals voting against, and all opposition MP’s voting for the motion.
In other interesting pre election news, high profile academic Michael Ignatieff has pulled the ripcord and will run as a candidate for the Liberals. His nomination has already encountered a few problems.
I won’t blog too much about this but if anything really interesting happens (big time gaffes, political suicides or important polling) from this point on I’ll chuck up a post.
This is likely to be the dirtiest election possibly in genteel Canada’s history.
Canada ,like Australia, desperately needs a change of government and I hope it gets one.
I believe CS says anyone voting Liberal is a chretian
Ban that sperm thief!!
What I find interesting, and I hope it happens for a HA! moment is that while not denying that what the Liberals did in Quebec is wrong, there is no bloody way that the Conservatives hasn’t done something similar. So their pulling of the ‘moral’ card is laughworthy.
It will be an interesting campaign to watch, not necessarily because of what occurs in it, but the landscape - campaigning will occur over the Holiday period which could cause a lot of people to have a Who Gives A Fuck mentality about the whole thing - at least more than usual which may have an effect upon the result.
Personally, I would like the NDP to win but the likelihood of that!