salsa
Senior Member
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Remember to vote, and tell everyone you know to vote!
It's possible this could get through in the first budget for the winner. The party which forced an election in July 2014 would very likely take a substantial hit at the polls unless the downloading move was hugely unpopular with the general public.
If PCs win on balancing the budget and they can show the fastest way to do this is by downloading city services to cities (housing and transit files for example), it may actually solidify their rural seats.
Heck, PCs could even keep control at the province and just download the funding component.
It's hard to predict what would happen if the NDP voted against it. Official Opposition (whom I assume is Liberal) is expected to vote against the budget. A Liberal majority at the cost of NDP seats may be the result.
If the NDP vote in favour, or abstained, on such an action then they may be stuck supporting the Conservatives for a number of years until their voter base either forgets or forgives.
I don't see much of a downside to the PC Party for trying.
Speaking of first budgets......heard a really interesting discussion on the radio yesterday as I drove to Niagara.
What happens in a Liberal minority? Kathleen Wynne (in a very strongly worded promise) has said that within 20 days of winning (so by July 2nd I guess) the house will be recalled and the exact same budget that was presented will be re-introduced (no variance the same one).
In that event, what do the other parties do? This is the budget that brought down the house ....the one that neither the NDP nor the PCs supported....the budget that was the cause of the election gets re-introduced exactly the same.....does one of the opposition parties (presumably the NDP) now find a way to support the budget? How does that sell to the public when we eventually go back to the polls?
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I don't see a good climbdown for Horwath at all - though for long-term stability Wynne might want to swing back closer to the centre more.
AoD
Witmer would indeed have been a great choice. But she didn't run. The most progressive candidate last time was Christine Elliott of all people. Heck, the person who finished second was even further right than Hudak!gweed:
Indeed - I thought Witmer would be a good choice to bring the P back to the PCs.
AoD
And here's hoping the PCs ditch Hudak and find someone to put the P back in PC.
I really don't think there's much sign of the Conservatives moving away from the extreme-right for some time.
Ultimately though, it will self-destruct. They'll become so extremely right that they'll dwindle to nothing, and something else will take their place. Can you imagine Hillier as leader?I agree. There is enough people out there that believe in Tea Party style politics. They will divide the PC's like the Tea Party did to the Republican Party. The more moderate Conservative candidates in the PC's may not survive much longer if the party continues moving more to the right.
Dream scenario.
Minority Liberal government. Hudak and his far-right core gets booted. Transit gets the funding it needs for the DRL and GO Electrification to begin construction. A centrist-slightly-right PC candidate along the lines of Bill Davis gets in and cleans house in the next election. The Liberals then clean their own house and recoup.
The NDP, well, I haven't accounted for them.