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ll said he believes ms jean was concerned about a conservative backlash that could generate a crisis of confidence in canada s political system my best guess was that she was he said i can t say for sure mr russell said adding that he however was worried about this he wouldn t divulge what ms jean told him during consultations the constitutional scholar said it s hard to envision the governor general not being worried about how mr harper and the conservative political machine would react if the pmo was handed to then liberal leader stéphane dion can you imagine anyone sitting here thinking if i say no to this man we ll just have a nice quiet time and swear in mr dion and life will go on he told the globe and mail kory teneycke a former director of communications to mr harper was quoted in globe and mail columnist lawrence martin s book harperland as saying that an appeal to buckingham palace was one option under consideration according to harperland mr teneycke maintained in an interview well after the event that it would have been just unheard of for the governor general to refuse a request for prorogation by a prime minister who had already survived a vote of confidence in the commons when mr teneycke was asked what other avenues the prime minister was exploring in case the decision had gone against them he responded well among them the queen written by randy mcdonald june 29 2012 at 6 57 pm posted in canada politics tagged with canada democracy links michaëlle jean politics prorogation stephen harper link two links on justin trudeau as likely disappointing saviour of the liberal party justin trudeau the montréal area mp who is an apparent front runner for the leadership of the battered liberal party of canada mainly because it seems he s the son of late great liberal pm pierre trudeau has been the subject of much media attention mainly because i suspect the dominance of inherited fame in making him a viable candidate for the leadership of a political party is something recognized as ridiculous by many people lysiane gagnon s acid column in the globe and mail from this monday is good i sn t it strange that a man who will turn 41 in december is considered too young to lead a party pierre elliott trudeau was only nine years older when he won the liberal crown in 1968 what this indicates is that indeed justin trudeau exudes juvenile charm lightness and immaturity as if he were not actually approaching middle age well past the age of peter pan his aura is made of the most superficial assets a famous father and handsome looks in a carefully scripted marketing stunt designed to show he had the steely courage of his father he fought in a boxing match against senator patrick brazeau and won the gullible parliamentary press too happy to escape the lugubrious corridors and the boring debates of the house of commons transformed this silly match into a big event yet mr trudeau remains a lightweight a former high school teacher with unimpressive professional baggage he lacks gravitas and substance he has never offered the public debate anything but clichés inspired by the lamest political correctness as mr den tandt asks what has he ever said or written that s substantial original or politically powerful well there is at least one remark of his that was original when he childishly mused that he d rather join the quebec sovereigntists than live in a harper dominated canada in a confrontation with bob rae the older and wiser politician would have crushed him at every step of a leadership race not coincidentally mr trudeau considered running only after mr rae had opted out in a televised match stephen harper and thomas mulcair would eat him alive elsewhere pat murphy s trudeaumania in the 21st century takes a look at how justin trudeau would do hint the liberal party is much weaker in western canada and québec now than in the 1960s when pierree trudeau ran from a policy impact perspective pierre trudeau was certainly one of canada s most consequential prime ministers he was also successful politically winning four of the five federal elections in which he led the liberals and his 1968 win was a genuinely broad based triumph but after that his political success had a relatively narrow base in the four following elections he never won western canada in fact the liberals were reduced to two seats there by the time he was done neither was he particularly successful in atlantic canada he only won it once in 1980 as for ontario his track record was pretty much a split decision he won it in 1968 1974 and 1980 but lost it in 1972 and 1979 all of which brings us to quebec the power base on which trudeau s political dominance was built he carried it overwhelmingly in all five elections often winning 50 per cent or more of his national seat total there to cut to the chase i ll put it this way absent quebec pierre trudeau would have been a one term prime minister ignominiously turfed out in 1972 and never returned to power you may very well ask what this has to do with justin s prospects after all couldn t he replicate his father s formula and ride to the prime minister s office by sweeping quebec maybe but he d have a much steeper hill to climb pierre trudeau had it relatively easy in quebec he was french canadian the liberals were quebec s traditional favourites and his serious opponents were a pair of hapless out of province anglos robert stanfield and joe clark things are different now it s been 30 years since the liberals dominated quebec federally and the ndp has emerged as the current inheritor of what was once the liberal base to claw back his father s overwhelming position justin would have to successfully go head to head with the feisty thomas mulcair a man with deep roots in quebec written by randy mcdonald june 29 2012 at 4 49 pm posted in assorted tagged with canada links politics popular culture blog some friday links 80 beats notes suggestions that odd carbon 14 ratios in classical japanese manuscripts and records of a red cross in the night sky from anglo saxon england indicate that there may have been a supernova visible from earth in 774 extraordinary observations is skeptical about the prospects for farming in urban areas in the united states taken in isolation anti semitic and anti romani sentiment in hungary is detailed those two populations histories explored at geocurrents a new apps blog post suggests that feminism might be unpopular with some men because they re not familiar with working women in their own lives drawing from the author s personal experiences as well as broader analysis border disputes between kyrgyzstan and tajikistan and the underlying patterns of disorder they reflect is the theme of a registan post technosociology suggests that the muslim brotherhood s transparent communication of electoral results in egypt may have been responsible for the acceptance of the vote by the military written by randy mcdonald june 29 2012 at 4 02 pm posted in assorted demographics economics history politics popular culture science social sciences tagged with agriculture bigotry borders central asia central europe cities democracy diasporas economics egypt feminism former soviet union history hungary jews kyrgyzstan links romani space science tajikistan united states link jean feared dreadful crisis when harper sought prorogation jeff jedras of a bcer in toronto linked to steven chase s globe and mail article claiming that back in december 2008 then governor general michaëlle jean accepted the request of prime minister stephen harper then leader of a minority government to close down parliament so as to avoid a coalition government because she feared a constitutional crisis constitutional scholar peter russell told ontarionewswatch com this week that weighing on ms jean s mind at the time was the likelihood the tories had they lost office would have poisoned confidence in the coalition government through a pr campaign framing the change as an illegitimate transfer of power the conservatives he told the ontario based news website have a huge publicity machine at their fingertips if a no had come out of rideau hall and an attack launched on a dion layton coalition that said we ve had a coup d etat in canada he said we would have been there in the headlines of the world like greece that s not very good for the country in any which way as is already known ms jean also extracted pledges from mr harper at the time that he would bring back parliament shortly and produce a budget to win sufficient support in the commons reached monday by the globe and mail mr russell said he believes ms jean was concerned about a conservative backlash that could generate a crisis of confidence in canada s political system my best guess was that she was he said i can t say for sure mr russell said adding that he however was worried about this he wouldn t divulge what ms jean told him during consultations the constitutional scholar said it s hard to envision the governor general not being worried about how mr harper and the conservative political machine would react if the pmo was handed to then liberal leader stéphane dion can you imagine anyone sitting here thinking if i say no to this man we ll just have a nice quiet time and swear in mr dion and life will go on he told the globe and mail kory teneycke a former director of communications to mr harper was quoted in globe and mail columnist lawrence martin s book harperland as saying that an appeal to buckingham palace was one option under consideration according to harperland mr teneycke maintained in an interview well after the event that it would have been just unheard of for the governor general to refuse a request for prorogation by a prime minister who had already survived a vote of confidence in the commons when mr teneycke was asked what other avenues the prime minister was exploring in case the decision had gone against them he responded well among them the queen written by randy mcdonald june 29 2012 at 2 56 pm posted in assorted tagged with canada democracy links politics photo brooklyn bridge the brooklyn bridge is a magnificent work of architecture looking south towards lower manhattan looking west towards the manhattan terminus looking north towards the manhattan bridge looking south towards ellis island tourists pass by the first of the great caissons photography ensues looking towards brooklyn written by randy mcdonald june 29 2012 at 1 00 pm posted in photo tagged with architecture new york city photos blog some friday links 80 beats notes suggestions that odd carbon 14 ratios in classical japanese manuscripts and records of a red cross in the night sky from anglo saxon england indicate that there may have been a supernova visible from earth in 774 extraordinary observations is skeptical about the prospects for farming in urban areas in the united states taken in isolation anti semitic and anti romani sentiment in hungary is detailed those two populations histories explored at geocurrents a new apps blog post suggests that feminism might be unpopular with some men because they re not familiar with working women in their own lives drawing from the author s personal experiences as well as broader analysis border disputes between kyrgyzstan and tajikistan and the underlying patterns of disorder they reflect is the theme of a registan post technosociology suggests that the muslim brotherhood s transparent communication of electoral results in egypt may have been responsible for the acceptance of the vote by the military written by randy mcdonald june 29 2012 at 12 02 pm posted in assorted tagged with agriculture bigotry borders central asia central europe cities democracy diasporas economics egypt feminism former soviet union history hungary jews kyrgyzstan links space science tajikistan united states photo brooklyn bridge the brooklyn bridge is a magnificent work of architecture seven more photos written by 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