Editor:
Some musings after reading your last issue. I read that the NDP have chosen Bill Forst as their candidate in the next federal election. That completes the match up for the three main parties. (Green Party, where art thou?) So let the games begin. Call this week one, and if the past is any example, things will change mightily once we get to election day minus one.
The NDP, for example, earned some Brownie points for staving off an election nobody wanted. But what if the time comes when the voters do want an election. What then?
The Conservatives did well in recent public opinion polls, even entering possible majority territory. But what if handing out an abundance of goodies to Conservative ridings is seen as a return to old time politics? John Weston is on record as saying, with a straight face, "This riding is getting a disproportionate amount of federal funding." Hmmm!
Now what about the Liberals? As of now, an uphill battle for Dan Veniez. A bad miscalculation by Michael Ignatieff resulted in a kick in the pants for the party in the ensuing public opinion polls. Ignatieff, an academic as he is, has plenty to learn in the parry and thrust of Federal politics. And assuming a spring election, time may not be his ally. As for Veniez, he knows Harper only too well. Maybe he knows some of his weaknesses. Time will tell.
Six months is a long long time in politics. Can we really tell how things will turn out in a spring election?
Bernard McGrath
Gibsons
