Comments on: A Lesson From Canada http://demockracy.com/a-lesson-from-canada/ Thu, 20 May 2010 16:29:27 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Kevin Van Dyke, Editor http://demockracy.com/a-lesson-from-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-277 Kevin Van Dyke, Editor Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:41:11 +0000 http://demockracy.com/?p=1911#comment-277 Are the NDP, Bloc, or Greens in control? Their push for the tax certainly couldn't have helped the Liberals. Good point about the lesser of two evils on the corruption front though. Do you think that Dion's inability to communicate well in English played any part in the magnitude of the defeat? Are the NDP, Bloc, or Greens in control? Their push for the tax certainly couldn’t have helped the Liberals.

Good point about the lesser of two evils on the corruption front though.

Do you think that Dion’s inability to communicate well in English played any part in the magnitude of the defeat?

]]> By: Nathanael Nerode http://demockracy.com/a-lesson-from-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-276 Nathanael Nerode Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:21:22 +0000 http://demockracy.com/?p=1911#comment-276 Wrong lesson. The lesson is that being a party with a reputation for being a pack of crooks is unpopular. The Liberals in Canada had an endless series of very public criminality and corruption scandals over the last several years. The Tories have managed to have substantially fewer. At least fewer which made the papers. Attributing the Liberals' loss to the carbon tax is inane; the NDP, Bloc, and Greens support carbon taxes and all did much better. Wrong lesson.

The lesson is that being a party with a reputation for being a pack of crooks is unpopular. The Liberals in Canada had an endless series of very public criminality and corruption scandals over the last several years. The Tories have managed to have substantially fewer. At least fewer which made the papers.

Attributing the Liberals’ loss to the carbon tax is inane; the NDP, Bloc, and Greens support carbon taxes and all did much better.

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