Liberals Poaching An NDP Idea?

Is The Liberal party so bereft of any new  ideas that they seem to be poaching ideas from their coalition partners?  They are working on a plan for Homecare.

A major initiative in the works, according to insiders, is on health care – specifically, home care. The new plan would see new forms of financial assistance for family caregivers, people who have to take time from work to tend to aging parents or family members stricken by mental or physical illnesses.
This would be done for thousands of families through increased benefits, a major one being an expansion of the employment insurance system. There’s a compassionate care benefit in the existing EI, but Liberals say it’s too small and overly restrictive.
The party also wants more investment in institutionalized home care – professional caregivers going to homes – and will push for that in the coming renegotiation of the federal-provincial health accord. But this is a more dubious prospect. Their emphasis will be where the federal government has the most power to act – a concrete plan for family caregivers.

 This happens to be  an NDP idea in which Larry Martin fails to point out.

By 2026, the number of Canadian seniors will double to 8 million. Darrell tells me one in four Nova Scotians will be 65-plus by then.
These are folks who worked hard, paid their dues, and deserve dignity in their elder years.So we need to start building capacity in homecare and long term care — now.
We’re already falling behind. Some hospitals now devote a quarter of their acute beds to seniors waiting for better options.
Expanding quality, affordable long-term care will ease that pressure on hospitals, cut waitlists, and give seniors their dignity.
Investing in home care will do the same — and not only for seniors. It’ll reduce hospitalization, help people heal, and save the system money.
Home care today is a loose patchwork of programs resting on a foundation of unpaid care by overstretched loved ones.
Nova Scotia is making strides help seniors stay in their own homes & communities — but you shouldn’t have to go it alone.
Roy Romanow called home care the “next essential service.” We’re ready to make home care the first major expansion of public medicare in 40 years.

Is this poaching an idea? Is it a coincidence? Or is it more evidence of a coalition?  Both their ideas are eerily similar.   The coalition of the losers seem to be more in sink with each other than not these days IE-gun registry, census, etc. so who knows?

A few days ago I warned you that there would be denials.    Just as I thought. Yesterday Iffy denied it but Norm Spector did a good job remind us all of what he has said previously in his own words.  Today the Globe and Mail editorial is denying it  also saying it's just PM Harper's fantasy and there is no sign of coalition.

Political parties are entitled to agree with each other from time to time, without being accused of having formed a coalition. For several weeks, the federal Conservatives have been claiming that the Liberals, the NDP and the Bloc Québécois are in a coalition. A particular convergence of opposition parties on this or that issue is no sign of any such alliance.

 What I also stated in my previous post was Don't believe them. because you can't trust either the opposition or the Lame Stream Media.  Is there a coalition or isn't there?  Maybe not openly at the moment but would they form one after the next election?  I think it's more likely than not.   They would stop at nothing to gain power. They are so power hungry they can taste it.   They are treacherous so  we need to watch them closely.

Bring Out The Tissues, Chantel Pines for The Good Ole Days

Chantel Hebert is crying the blues, lamenting about how the country is becoming less Liberal and about who's going to be the savior of the Trudeau legacy.

In the decade since Pierre Trudeau passed away, Canada has become less Liberal in political appearance and in policy outlook.

Boo, hoo, hoo!  Chantel then goes on to infer that the institutions that Trudeau imposed on us  is going to going down hill like medicare,  multiculturalism, bilingualism, the Charter etc.  She's also lamenting there is no one in Quebec waiting in the wings to be Prime Minister.

There is a real possibility that the party that built Canada's social union in the sixties and seventies could have little representation of any kind at the table of the upcoming renegotiation of the federal-provincial fiscal arrangements that underpin Medicare.With a year to go to the next Ontario election, the winds of change are battering premier Dalton McGuinty's third-term government.
A solid majority of Quebecers would rather have Premier Jean Charest resign than undergo the second half of his third term. In British Columbia, the tide turned against Premier Gordon Campbell some time ago.
These days, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's practice of starting every news conference in French; his recent choice of a bilingual governor-general; the zeal with which his ambitious ministers are polishing up their bilingual skills in preparation for the day the Conservative leadership opens up are tokens of Trudeau's continuing impact on Canada's national life.
But beyond those public nods to Canada's linguistic duality, Trudeau's imprint on the national psyche is really fading.
The current federal government — including its prime minister — is genetically predisposed to be suspicious of the impact of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on the country.
The multiculturalism that Trudeau saw as part of the foundation of a civic form of Canadian nationalism is increasingly viewed as a fracture-inducing stress point.
A decade after his passing, no national party boasts a strong Quebec presence within its caucus.
Moreover there is little apparent interest among Trudeau's fellow francophones and not much appetite in the rest of the country for a new Quebec generation of so-called wise men/women to come to Parliament Hill — in the manner that Trudeau, Jean Marchand and Gérard Pelletier did in the mid-sixties.
If there is another prime minister from Quebec currently in the making, he or she is still very much a dark horse.

Chantel, Chantel, Chantel, I know you are pining for the good ole days but face it, the Trudeau experiment has failed.  Another thing, we don't want another PM from Quebec! We've had enough of that!
  Perhaps Chantel doesn't see that the public is starting to wake up to the fact that Liberalism (progressivism, socialism, marxism) doesn't work. 

People around the world are starting to wake up.  Look at Europe and the US in particular.  Progressives down there about to lose big time in the November midterm elections.  The Democrats are poised to lose control in the Congress for sure and very likely the Senate.  Real conservatives will be elected instead.  Voters have even rejected the progressive Republican establishment hence quite a few long time establishment GOP members lost in the primaries. That's why the tea parties are having such a big influence.

Voters are sick and tired of the big spending, the ever increasing size of government, and an increasing infringement of their civil liberties, individual freedoms and the nanny state.

Canadians don't want  Trudeau experiment 2.0!  

Government Should Leave Us Alone

Do you find like I do no matter what level of government that no matter what the issue, they seem to be trying to want to run every part of our lives?  Monte Solberg makes a very good case why government should just leave us alone.

In government, too often inefficient and ineffective programs just get bigger and more intrusive. Why wouldn’t they? Careers and salaries don’t hinge on programs being successful or efficient. Sometimes there are almost no systems in place to indicate whether a program is working.Let’s face it, the government just isn’t very good at doing many, if not most, things. As P.J. O’Rourke once famously said, giving the government more money is like giving 16-year-old boys whiskey and car keys.

Exactly!  Government can't do anything very effectively at all.  Too much bureaucracy, red tape etc.  Government no matter what level couldn't organize a two car funeral efficiently if you let them.

Programs always run over budget, you get fifty different bureaucrats working on the same file at the same time that each one doesn't know what the other is doing. So much redundancy.  They want information from us they actually don't need and when you contact them, they keep giving you the run around.

They try and tell you how to conduct your life. Parents don't need to told how to raise their children. We don't need to be told what we should eat, or to get in the shade, put on our sun screen and drink plenty of fluid when it's hot out.   Stuff like that is just common sense.  We don't need government to tell us what to do.  Government doesn't trust you to do what is best for you and your family or your business. They treat you and I like we're stupid!  We are not children!

Who pays for all that nonsense?  You got it!  We do, the taxpayer!  It's time we came against our governments who impose all this control on us.  We have to restore common sense at all levels of government again.  It's up to us.  We have allowed them to get away with this kind of business for far too long.

Government, at all levels, LEAVE US ALONE!  Take off the shackles and encourage personal responsibility.  Allow private business to do what business knows best,  to conduct business. Free private individuals to create and innovate and they in turn are betters abled to  freely contribute to society, to help those that  need the help.   A freer people, will translate into a free, happy and prosperous nation.   

New Poll, Layton's NDP Now Tied With Lizzy's Greens

The gun registry vote has not helped the opposition parties. A new Ipsos Reid poll taken during the long gun registry debate and vote shows Jack Layton's NDP now tied with Lizzy May's Greens. Not good!  Both are at 12%.   There were some in the media who said the Liberals were winners in this. Sure looks like it, they lost 2 pts.  The CPC are up 1 pt.

Conservatives-35%
Liberals-29%
NDP-12%
Greens-12%
BQ-11%

They might have taken a different strategy which probably wouldn't have hurt them but too late now.  That's what you get when you nudge your members to vote contrary to voters wishes.   Me thinks there are going to be some MPs that are going to lose their seats when the next election rolls around.  Bring it on!

The Coalition Is Alive and Well

If anyone has questioned whether or not the coalition is alive or not just consider what has been going on since parliament has resumed.  If they don't watch it, they're playing right into the Prime Minister's hands.   The PM and his Finance Minister has painted the opposition as the coalition.

 Wednesday the coalition got together and voted to keep the long gun registry even though some opposition members had previously supported the private members bill by CPC MP Candice Hoeppner to scrap it. (Six of Jack Layton's members voted with the government by the way the other night.)

Now the coalition of the losers are getting together to save the mandatory long form census.

Opposition parties banded together to save the long-gun registry, now they're trying to rescue the mandatory long-form census.
 The Liberals submitted details to the House of Commons on Thursday of a private member's bill that would specifically insert the mandatory long-form census into the Statistics Act.
The bill could see first reading in the Commons by Oct. 1, and the opposition hopes it can hurry it through second reading and on to committee hearings. The Bloc Quebecois and the NDP said Thursday they would support a bill to resurrect the mandatory long form.

  There is no doubt, the coalition of the losers is alive and well. This is just a beginning I believe.   Yes they will deny it.  They will say "There is no coalition."   But DON'T believe them. DON'T let them fool you.   Just look at the gun registry vote and how members from both the Liberal and NDP parties flip flopped at the last minute.  It  tells you a lot.  Why did those members all of a sudden change their minds after supporting scrapping the program? They  even campaigned on scrapping it?  What happened?  What were they promised or were they threatened? My spidey senses are telling me something.  Call me a conspiracy theorist but, I think something is a foot here.   

Don't believe what the Lame Stream Media will tell you either.  They will say "Oh there is no coalition at play here. That was over a long time ago. Michael Ignatieff denounced it shortly after he took over as leader of the Liberals and he was the last Liberal to sign the coalition document."  Bunk!  Don't forget the Liberal media had promoted the idea of the coalition when the losers tried to overthrow the government just weeks after the election in late 2008. Beware! Neither CAN be trusted! 

The coalition of the losers and their media don't care about you. They don't care about Canada.  All they care about is getting  big bad evil PM Harper and the Conservative government out and taking over. They are power hungry  and aching to get  at the public trough.  They will destroy our fragile economy with all their social programs like universal daycare  and will raise your taxes etc. ( They will cancel the corporate tax cuts that the Conservatives have put in place for example.) They will bring in Kyoto. They will destroy the country.

The coalition of the losers are progressives and progressivism is not good.  It's about taking your wealth, spreading it around and taking away your freedoms.   Don't let them!