It's a sad day indeed.
Time to take down the Coalition Bloggers button and leave all of the coalition facebook groups. Yup, Iggy has ended things. We have been very publicly dumped. We saw it coming. The relationship has been on the rocks since prorogation. But we hoped we could keep it together for the good of Canadians who need a budget that will protect jobs and stimulate the economy in ways that will create new jobs.
But sadly, he has left us for the Conservatives, stating that he will be supporting a budget that is, in his own words, "flawed."
Adding insult to injury:
Ignatieff refused to say the coalition — negotiated last November by his predecessor, Stephane Dion — is finished. He suggested it could still “play a useful role” in future. - Winnepeg Sun, January 28, 2009
"Play a useful role"? That's cold Iggy...even for you. And you know as well as anyone else that the Governor General will not ask anyone else to form government should the Tories fall after failing on one of your progress reports - which are months away.
About these progress reports....Ignatieff laid out standards that the Tory budget needed to meet in order to gain Liberal support: protecting jobs, addressing pay equity fairly, investing in the green economy, and the list goes on. Iggy admits that these standards were not met, but he will be supporting the budget anyways. How are we to believe that the standards for these progress reports mean anything?
We've all said a lot about Stephane Dion's lack of leadership, but it does seem now like even he was a harder marker than Ignatieff.
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I don't agree, but best title of the day for sure :)
And this is why we don't (and will never) vote Liberal.
There are leaders and followers.
The Liberals don't need a leadership contest, because they already have one.
And his name is Harper. The Liberal leadership constant follow Harper. We are actually Conservatives and didn't know it.
On the bright side, you can always put up the Missing in Opposition widget again ;-)
1. It's defintely you. DeFInATeLY, you. Not Michael. You.
2. Jack was the first person to say the coalition is dead. I think he also may have cried a little.
3. Doesn't matter what Iggy said, did, Layton already said he wouldn't support the budget, no matter what. How's that for "making Parliament work?" He denounced the budget before he even read it or proposed an amendment.
4. Aaron Wherry says your man cries like a 16 year old.
So much for the Coalition for Change rally we attended in Vancouver, huh?
Hope this teaches real progressives a thing or two about the libs . . . .
Do you have no confidence that the Liberals have shown better economic
management in past?
Do you doubt the Conservatives polices such as CHMC extending mortgages to 40yrs without down payments have not increased problems
for banks in Canada?
Do you not better understand the Governments roll of balancing individual and social cost, education, health care better then the Conservatives.?
Do you not believe you are more capable of leading Canada through this major economic correction?
Obviously you don't believe in yourselves.
The economic incompetent Conservatives should have been removed!!!
Now by supporting the Conservatives and not removing them, you have shown that you are no more competent than them.
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So how can I believe in you either?
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