And now it has just become depressing. The international media has picked up on the census debate and they’re just mocking it. There is this priceless quote in a New York Times article: “I wouldn’t call this political interference,” Professor Prewitt said. “I would call this government stupidity.” Yes, the beauty for all of America [...]
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And now, the international laughing stock phase of our debate…
David Akin: Live by the poll, Die by the…
The other week David Akin penned a commentary piece about an Ipsos-Reid poll that showed Canadians were evenly split about the census issue. It was trotted forward as proof positive that this was a non-issue that the press was blowing out of proportion. Well, things have changed. A more recent Angus-Reid poll shows that the [...]
The Census weak link: What the Liberals, Bloc & NDP should do
Public and the media condemnation of the government’s decision to end the long form census has been universal (see more fun quotes below). Now the political opposition has started to mobilize. The focus of the opposition has been on the secretive nature of the decision and the failure to consult any stakeholders. While this is [...]
Neo-Progressive Alert: The NDP as risk-averse conservatives
As some of my readers know, I’m always interested in articles that highlight how all the political parties in Canada (and the US?) have become conservative. Not necessarily in the sense that they want to roll back government, but in the sense that they cannot not imagine some new future. I think the classic example [...]
Federal Leaders on the run…
In early December – as a result of the mess that was the first Conservative budget and the proposed coalition – I proposed that all the federal leaders, save Duceppe, would be out of their jobs within a year. We’ve already lost Dion… that just leaves Harper and Layton. In both cases things are look [...]
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