Best Canada's Tories Can Hope For

So reading yesterday's EKOS poll on how Canadians feel about their political parties it's hard not to get a bit despondent as a Canadian progressive. Of course if I was a tory I wouldn't feel that great about things as they stand either. This result is the best they can hope for.

There aren't now nor will there likely be in the near future a plurality of conservatives in Canada. So they have to hope the Canadian left remains divided and they can preside over a series of minority Parliments. They also have to hope that people don't look too closely at the ivory tower man, Michael Ignatieff, and the Liberal Party or they might discover just how conservative these clowns are and start voting for parties that are comprised of actual progressives.

As things stand the Tories bounce around between the high twenties and low thirties in the polls. The Liberals poll in the high twenties mostly, occasionally topping thirty percent. The poll totals of the NDP and the Green Party add up to somewhere around twenty-six percent. The Bloc, where Quebecers park their votes is arguably a vote for progressive policy - Quebec is many things but hardly a bastion of conservatism.

So there you have, in a Canadian nutshell, where we stand. One third of the country favours the Conservative Party and two thirds vote for liberal and progressive parties and yet we are governed by the party that represents one third of how Canadians feel. That this doesn't seem to bother anyone speaks to the complacency and cynicism of Canadian voters.

Politically Canuck

Back late for the daily post of links both from the stories I covered on my radio show and just important things being ignored by the various asshats in the MSM.

Not much Canadian news on the radio show today. CBC story has Afghan authorities beating citizens on a whim, so it makes you wonder why detainees were handed over without much follow up scrutiny. Here's a list of the officials named in Richard Colvin's testimony. And here's a comprehensive look at war crimes and what's known as Superior Responsibility.

In spite of Canadians being unhappy about the proroguing, the detainee issue, politicizing the funding of the maternal health for women in developing countries, the tories actually gained ground in the polls on the Liberals. The incompetence of Ignatieff and co. would seem to know no bounds. The NDP is unable to take advantage as well.

Here in Quebec, our Premier is facing numerous ethics questions about the Liberal financing practices. The muckrakers in the Bloc Quebecois up to their standard s*** disturbing. Sure wish people in Quebec would stop parking their votes there during federal elections. It's kind of a cop-out.