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[VicHockeyFan]

Andrew Reeve, Victoria’s Liberal Party riding president, said two prominent people had submitted nomination papers and a third is undecided. The two in the race are a business professor and a media personality. Reeve would not name them. The undecided person is a businessman, he said.

 

 

- See more at: http://www.timescolo...h.mKqGB9df.dpuf

 

Adam Stirling

Hudson Mack

Bruce Williams

Stephen Andrew

Murray Langdon

[VicHockeyFan]

In 2011, the Greens did not seek a formal alliance with the Liberal party again. But in that election, the Liberal vote nevertheless collapsed in Saanich–Gulf Islands when May ran, challenging long-time Conservative incumbent Gary Lunn. The Liberals, who had obtained over 25,000 votes and almost beat Lunn in 2008, obtained fewer than 5,000 votes in 2011—a decline of over 80 percent.

 

This result was a major anomaly, and a large divergence from regional voting trends. The only time the Liberals had ever earned fewer than 15,000 votes here before was when the riding it was first contested in 1988. It was their worst performance ever, by far.

 

 

 

 

Despite their stated goal of contesting many new ridings, the Greens have nominated candidates in only 28 of 338 federal ridings so far. Of those, only three are held by Liberal incumbents: Halifax West, Charlottetown, and Malpeque. Not a single Liberal riding west of the Maritimes is being contested by a Green candidate as of today.

 

It is not unreasonable to conclude, and I do conclude, that May’s 2008 deal with the Liberal Party of Canada was not an anomaly. She has relentlessly pursued backroom deals with the Liberals for the last decade. She is dependent on the Liberal party’s cooperation for her re-election. She cannot challenge the Liberals if she wants to retain her seat. So she isn’t challenging them at all. She is supporting them.

 

I do not believe the Greens are a postpartisan party. They are highly partisan: in favour of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals. NDP-Green cooperation is unfortunately impossible, because the Greens are already cooperating with the Liberal Party of Canada.

 

 

http://www.straight....ral-deal-making

 

[Bingo]

 

Ex-CBC host Roberts seeks Green nomination in Victoria

 

http://www.timescolo...toria-1.1741515

 

 

Nice.

[G-Man]

I think that an NDP Green alliance would be a disaster. They would lose my vote for sure.

[spanky123]

- See more at: http://www.timescolo...h.mKqGB9df.dpuf

 

Adam Stirling

Hudson Mack

Bruce Williams

Stephen Andrew

Murray Langdon

 

I can't see Andrews being nominated after his 4th place showing last year and his support of Atwell. My bet would be on Stirling and Rob Reid getting tossed back into politics.

[Lorenzo]

Anybody seen Hud?

[Bingo]

- See more at: http://www.timescolo...h.mKqGB9df.dpuf

 

Adam Stirling

Hudson Mack

Bruce Williams

Stephen Andrew

Murray Langdon

 

There's still time to add Frank Stanford, Pamela McCall and Terry Moore to the list.

[Rob Randall]

Doubt Rob Reid is interested. Adam Stirling on the other hand...

[David Bratzer]

Anybody seen Hud?

I follow Hudson Mack's Twitter feed. I'm sure he would do well if he ran, but it doesn't seem like he is interested in politics. No tweets about the Liberals, Conservatives, etc.

[Bingo]

The government will introduce new legislation aimed at giving more powers to Canada's police and security agencies

in the wake of two attacks by converts to Islam last year, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Sunday.

Harper said the new laws will be put before Parliament next Friday.

"These measures are designed to help authorities stop planned attacks, get threats off our streets, criminalize the promotion of terrorism,

and prevent terrorists from travelling and recruiting others," Harper said in the prepared text of speech in Ottawa.

"It will contain a range of measures to ensure that our police and security agencies have the tools they need to meet evolving threats, and keep Canadians safe."

http://www.cbc.ca/ne...2931216?cmp=rss

 

[Mr Cook Street]

I'm guessing that Paul Summerville is running again. He is a business prof.

[AndrewReeve]

I'm guessing that Paul Summerville is running again. He is a business prof.

 

Paul Summerville is not running again. He is busy with his new tech company, Limespot.

[spanky123]

Paul Summerville is not running again. He is busy with his new tech company, Limespot.

 

Looked at the website. He should be running again!

[Bingo]

Bill to be tabled in June. Does this mean the election is close behind?

 

The federal government will table new legislation during this sitting of Parliament to ensure criminals convicted of the worst crimes have no chance of being released from prison, Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney confirmed today.

"I've clearly indicated in the speech from the throne that those individuals who are committing violent and serious repetitive crime should be kept behind bars," Blaney said in Ottawa.

http://www.cbc.ca/ne...2933479?cmp=rss

 

[VicHockeyFan]

The election is going to happen at the scheduled date, October 19th.  I have no idea why the media is scrambling all over the place speculating about the date.

[lanforod]

Making up news... I think it would do Harper more harm than good to call an early election.

[Mr Cook Street]

Andrew Coyne: Stephen Harper ignores fixed election date law and no one seems to care

What’s interesting about all this election speculation, pointless as it is, is the underlying premise: that the date of the next election is in fact open to question. By law, that is not supposed to be the case. By law — An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act, S.C. 2007, c. 10 — the next election date is set in stone: October 19, 2015. So the real, unspoken premise is this: that the prime minister does not feel bound to follow the law — his own law, as it happens.

 

Not only does he not feel bound by it, but neither do the rest of us seem inclined to insist that he should. We have all somehow come to accept that it is perfectly normal, even acceptable, for the government — the government! — to disobey the law if it feels like it, as if the laws that are binding upon the rest of us were not binding upon the governments that pass them. This is surely an astonishing state of affairs, in a democracy, a measure not only of the corrupting effects of power but of how the rest of us have been corrupted along with it.

 

Good column (as always) from Andrew Coyne about all the punditry on all the election speculation. 

[Mike K.]

Well, if the voters don't care, then ...?

[VicHockeyFan]

Well, if the voters don't care, then ...?

 

I love Andrew Coyne, he's top-notch.  But he's off base here, nobody is moving the election date.  

 

The voters don't mind (or those that don't read the Nat Post) because it's not happening.  Only the media is trying to find a story here.

 

99% of Canadians could not care less, they will just go on towards the October election.

[AllseeingEye]

Nice.

I note today that Komrade Lynn Hunter is b!tching and moaning - read crying - in a letter to the T-C about the Greens running a high profile candidate against Murray Rankin. Well tough damn boobies; cry us all a river...... 

 

I am by no means necessarily a Green supporter, certain elements of their federal platform especially I like very much and others make me shake my head in disbelief. That said I'm sorry to say Ms. Hunter but this isn't Stalinist Russia. This is Canada where, theoretically, anyone can damn well run where they please thank you very much and certainly without consulting the likes of you, or seeking your permission or blessing. Its called democracy or its at least a very close facsimile. 

 

So you don't like the fact the Green's are running a "profile" candidate? But but but...if your party, the so-called "progressive conscience" of the nation, is so superior to all others, then why "surely" that truth will be plainly and clearly evident to the grateful voters of Victoria and therefore it should matter not who runs for the Greens; and therefore vote splitting should concern the NDP not one iota.....yes/no? Or could it be that your progressive NDP isn't quite as advertised and other parties do - in fact - offer value and are equally attractive to Canadians in their own right? I realize and understand that must come as a complete shock to a died-in-the-wool socialist, yet I digress....

 

Sometimes, very occasionally, and usually late at night when I've had one too many vodka crantini's, I try - I really do try, honest engine folks - to understand and force myself to review various NDP plank(s) and policies, and attempt to weigh them on their relative merits, and simultaneously I do my very best to ignore my admittedly right-of-center tendencies and proclivities. And just when maybe I find some party nugget I actually do want to like or agree with, some faded ideological hack like Lynn Hunter weighs in and reminds me why I cannot stomach them. I can't vote in Victoria as I no longer live in Fairfield; and I am unlikely to vote Green in the election but just for her whiny, snivelling, self-serving comments in that letter, I really do hope the Greens beat the living tar out of Hunter's Gang of self-anointed "Progressives".