It’s The Economy, Stupid!
It would appear that Mr. Harper of Canada has stepped in something very nasty by not having a plan to deal with the economic recession. This is beyond idiotic. There is a standard approach that everyone uses, no matter where they fall on the political scale, but the newly re-elected Prime Minister of Canada refuses to pull it out of the file and present it to parliament.
His non-action has opened a golden opportunity for the opposition parties, and they aren’t going to let it pass: Liberals, NDP, Bloc sign deal on proposed coalition.
What they intend to do is call a no confidence vote in parliament, which they have enough votes to win, and then take over from Harper. Harper can try to dodge this, but it would be futile as he has lost the initiative to the other parties.
He just blew the extra votes he won in calling early elections by not having a response to the recession. This is just brain-dead politics on his part. It is positively Bushian.
