Lorrie Goldstein wonders if any Canadian political party will take us out of the Kyoto accord.
Maybe a better question: What were the Liberals thinking when they signed on?
They committed Canadians to one of the most radical programs for reducing greenhouse gases on the planet, with no idea of how to achieve it. […]
In the aftermath of Meech Lake, the shattered old Progressive Conservative organization was a zombie – dead, but still staggering around. Mulroney had lost two-thirds of his record-breaking mandate, and gone from 211 seats down to 2!
Yet with Charest as leader, the PC’s could still command 2,400,000 million votes in 1997. […]
Threats of an election seem to be in the wind. There is a chess game being played here. The leaders position their parties to maximize their advantage, and certainly to embarrass their opponents. Duceppe is the most active in this respect, lobbing his ‘nation’ question into the middle of the Liberal Party, […]
