political accountability and the price is right?

[madhyena]

This may be an opening for showboating, but it seems like a good idea to me.
Apparently Paul Martin is in favor of televising all the future health summits, that way the politicians involved feel some actuall pressure to get stuff done rather than just sitting on their asses bickering.
Could be good, could be bad.

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[angramainyu]

I think Martin's strategy with that is to eek out some more Ontario votes -- Getting Harper up in front of people and hammering him on the privatisation of Health Care is probably a good way to do that.

[madhyena]

Deffinetly, Harper's been opperating largly on just not showing his cards, and Martin's been caught too off guard so far, but it's good to see the slow arc of the punch coming around.
Harper's going to go far, I just hope Martin's got the balls and brains to put a wall in front of him and get the people looking at the bastard.

[angramainyu]

Agreed. I'm still shocked and dismayed at the growth of the Conservative support. I think you're quite right about Martin being off-guard, as I get the feeling that he thought the election would be cake-walk and now he facing the very real prospect of not being the next PM.

If I could pick-and-choose eveything myself, I'd love to see a Liberal minority with a good number of NDP seats, since I think a Liberal-NDP coalition would actually have a decent agenda.

[madhyena]

Deffinetly, I like the idea of the liberals pushing the economically sensible things, with the NDP to encourage social consciousness, and i've got to admit, after the ontario election, they have been good about the concept of keeping it an open window sort of policy on what people find out about.

political accountability

[bogamaz]

Well gee, i'd love to trust people out of hand but the rampant lies they spout during the election always sicken me. As far as im concerned the liberals and conservatives share far more in common than either party does with the NDP. Firstly, the NDP is the only party ive heard address the issue of NAFTA, something that should be in the fore during this debate, not gay marriage and abortion, already decide issues. The Liberals have sold this country out just like Clinton sold the states out to free trade. The only difference between the liberals and conservatives on this point has been that the liberals have hovered on the issue and done it more or less gradual where as the conservatives drop on their knees begging to suck some corporate cock and hand them our country on a platter to keep money in its place, in other words, rich keep getting rich and the poor pay for it. In terms of health care, i think that a radical restructuring of the internal apparatus is far overdue, a re-haul of the system. This is something that will cost but