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Thursday, 13 May 2010
In the National Post McParland gives a good summary of the impressive written coalition agreement entered into between the Tories and LibDems in the UK, and then discusses why our political leaders have failed to come up with a made-in-Canada coalition equal to that one.
Our party leaders are small men, with misguided priorities:
LIKE IT? CLICK HERE TO READ MORESo, to repeat, why is this impossible in Canada? Well, perhaps because Canada's parties spend so much time insisting their differences are so vast, so fundamental, so crucial to Canada's future that even a minimum level of cross-aisle co-operation is all but impossible, never mind a coalition. So devoted are the party leaders to denouncing one another that any hint of a governing pact would look like little more than self-serving hypocrisy.
Labels: coalition, Liberal Party, NDP, political reform, Tories, UK politics
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