Modeling Journey

… and again and again, to learn what your minority Tory government has to do to avoid an election in November or December or January or February or March or April or May or June …

Why? Because Jack Layton has issued his first menu of changes in your unruly behaviour that he wants you to undertake in order to win the NDP support for your precarious government:

"The NDP could save the Conservative government from a fall defeat if the Tories make strides to boost pensions, slay bank and credit card fees and help the unemployed.

Senior New Democrats suggested the 36-member caucus could save the country from an unwanted fall vote if Prime Minister Stephen Harper agrees to support key NDP priorities.

“The Prime Minister needs to decide if he wants to call an election or call Mr. Layton,” said NDP national director Brad Lavigne.

Lavigne said the caucus would take a wait-and-see approach to the Liberal non-confidence motion expected this fall. The NDP is prepared to fight an election but it hasn’t closed the door to working with the Tories, he said.

“If (the Conservatives) want to start making gestures in the interests of all Canadians such as working on pensions (and) bank fees or other things that are of interest to Canadians then I don’t think we will have to foist the fourth general election on Canadians in five years,” said NDP deputy leader and finance critic Thomas Mulcair."

But perhaps you had better ask yourself how you felt when the Liberals put you on probation, for a period of some eight months. You did not like that, I bet.
Now ask yourself how you and your supporters will feel if the 'socialists' put you on probation on a monthly basis, with the first four demands to be followed by another set and another set and another set …

Because Jack Layton will have to justify to his supporters and to Canadians that he is always getting something meaningful (as judged by the NDP standard of what is meaningful) in return for every bit of propping up of your government that he holds his nose and does.

Have a nice Christmas.