Modeling Journey

With a summer filled with Tory scurryings to and fro and Harper photo ops now drawing to an end, the vacuum that was the Liberal Party leadership working on a strategy to gain power and give Canadians a better government in these tough times is now taking its price.

Suddenly, the Liberal leadership has woken up to the fact that they needed time to present a case to the voters that the Tory government is mismanaging the country's affairs, and deserves to be replaced.

But they feel they will not have the time when Parliament reconvenes, so they won't table a motion of no confidence in the government!

"Liberal strategists also note they’ll have very little time between Parliament’s resumption on Sept. 14 and their first opposition day in which to make the case that they can no longer work with Harper’s Conservatives.

Parliament will barely get going again before it breaks the week of Sept. 21 while Harper attends the G20 summit in Pittsburgh.

“I’m not ruling (an early confidence vote) out but if I’m an oddsmaker, I suspect that the odds of landing a few real powerful punches in that short a number of days after a three-month free ride is unlikely,” said one top strategist.

“I don’t rule it out for a month or so later after you’ve been going at it for five or six weeks.”

Liberal House leader Ralph Goodale said EI reform is only one of four main issues on which his party will assess the need for a fall election.

The others are the government’s failure to get infrastructure projects up and running, to resolve the medical isotopes crisis, and to detail a plan for eliminating the massive deficits being racked up.

Those are the same issues Ignatieff identified last June as potential election triggers."

Go figure!

And these are the Keystone cops who want to replace the current do-nothing bunch on the grounds of incompetence?