We have a federal minority government, a Quebec minority government, a Nova Scotia minority government and, I predict, way too far in advance, an Ontario minority government.
The reason it'll be a minority government in Ontario? Well, everyone else is doing it.
Plus, John Tory, the current leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives is a lot more likeable than 2003 leader, and former premier, Ernie Eves. That alone will help out the Tories.
Also, there are all those Liberal broken promises for Premier Dalton McGuinty to deal with.
I remember, as the 2003 campaign was winding down, that the Toronto Sun ran a two-page list of all the promises McGuinty had made during the election campaign. They were implying that with so many promises made, there was no way he could possibly keep them all.
If the editors at the Sun, which is an unabashedly conservative paper (note the lowercase "C"), have any sense, they will re-run that list the weekend before the election, with huge, bright red "X"s beside every unkept promise.
So, with sleek and friendly John Tory leading the Tories, and with a list of broken Liberal promises to take to the electorate, I am, more than six months before election day, calling it a Liberal minority.
Or a Progressive Conservative minority.
The point is, it'll be a minority.
The details can be worked out in October.
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In preparations for the upcoming premature elections; several local riding associations; Provincial, Federal, Liberal, Tory et-all, have begun to take action.
Some of those activities include the premature ejections of legitimate nominees; and now we await the pre-writ premature erection of the ‘these-aren’t-really-election-signs’.
Posted by Stephen Wahl | April 3, 2007 9:57 PM
Posted on April 3, 2007 21:57