Tuesday, 2 December 2008

Dear Prime Minister

Don't dodge the House. The Opposition has been planning this scheme since the last federal election, and is highly determined to set a precedent. As we're faced with the prospect of imminent defeat, I urge You to take the following ten steps:

On the House side:
  1. Demand the details of a potential stimulus package from the opposition parties immediately. If they are so adamant to take power, they will already have a draft budget. Let them show the cards.
  2. Attempt to find a negotiating point with at least one of the Opposition parties. Make clear what you're willing to concede. A reasonable concession could give us enough breathing space to table a Budget. Also, this would call the Opposition's bluff by showing them for the intransigent power-seekers they are.
  3. Failing that, table a detailed binding blueprint for the next Budget, making it a matter of confidence. If we have to fall, let us fall over a clear policy rather than an economic update whose alterations would take too long to explain to the average voter.
  4. Recommend to the Governor General that she refuse all Senate appointments by the incoming Government due to the lack of a coalition mandate from the voters of either party. Any Senate appointments shall be made after the next federal election.
  5. Not ask for the Governor General to prorogue Parliament. Shutting House business is the last thing we need in these turbulent economic times
In other areas:
  1. Not be afraid to lose. Minority governments have the tendency to fall, and ours is no exception.
  2. Acknowledge that this Country has had its fair share of both good and bad Governments, and 13 years of Liberal rule didn't make it into a socialist gulag. Their policies may be wrong, but they're nothing we can't set right with a majority.
  3. Talking majorities, double-check the Party's communication strategy.
  4. Present the Opposition with a copy of the Cencelli handbook, which was instrumental in giving Italy a new Government each year.
  5. Remain undeterred as Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.

3 comments:

BillM said...

Canada is a Confederation. I has 10 provinces and 1 federal government.

Th conservatives won 6 provinces
The Libs won 3 provinces
The Bloc won 1 province
The NDP won 0 provinces.

The conservatives won 7 (including federal) the coalition won 4

The conservative are more representative than the coalition!!!

Anonymous said...

Some good recommendations Luca, but you are dead wrong about damage from THIS coaliton. The potential for this socialist/separatist hybrid to open this treasure chest, in a raid, will set this country back possibly for ever. New ground will be broken and new sacred cows entrenched. The country will be doomed.

Luca Manfredi said...

With so many stakeholders it'll be a nightmare dividing up the cows before they can even entrench them.

I don't like the idea of a coalition and I don't like the idea of elections. However I think we shouldn't rush to the polls just yet.