Federal Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff has categorically denied he will cobble together a coalition with the Quebec separatists and the socialist New Democratic Party if he gets a chance to govern. I do not for one minute believe him.
The NDP’s Jack Layton has already said he will work with any party. At least he is up front about it but who cares?
The reason I don’t believe Mr. Ignatieff is simple. Unless the Liberals win an outright majority, a nearly impossible task, Mr. Ignatieff is so desperate for power he will do whatever it takes to rule over the land for the Liberals regardless of what he might say during the election. The coalition is the only way he might be able to get the Conservatives out of office.
Consider this.
During the last parliament, the leftist Liberals and the socialist New Democratic Party attempted to form a coalition government with the Quebec separatists whose only reason for existence is to destroy the Canadian Confederation.
The three wise men wanted to overthrow the Conservative government and replace it with an alliance that effectively, by their sheer numbers, would have given the separatists a veto over all legislation and government policy. More importantly it would have allowed them liberal access to the public tax trough.
This outrageous arrangement was only derailed by the public outrage that followed when Canadians outside Quebec realized what this duplicitous plan really involved and the implications of giving power to the separatists. And as predicted, the lamestream media is right there to convince us otherwise.
Numerous Parliament Hill media apologists rushed to the defence of the coalition concept denying the separatists would have veto power. The numbers in Parliament told a different story. But then I can understand the media types fumbling down that road since they think their readers and audiences to be a stupid lot.
Since then, the Bloc Quebecois has been ramping up its demands for extra billions of the hated Canadian dollar to prop up a province that already sucks up the lion’s share of the transfer payments from other provinces as well as billions more in pork barrel gifts for so called economic development and other projects.
For those of you who do not know what a transfer payment is, it is tax money paid by the rest of the Confederation partners into federal coffers which is then divvied up to poorer provinces. It is supposed to raise everyone’s economies up to a certain standard equal to the more prosperous and well run provinces. Of course, like all forms of welfare, it has the opposite effect.
Now get this. Out of a 2010-2011 equalization fund of $14.2 billion, Quebec gets 60 per cent of that or $8.552 billion. And the BQ wants more. Ontario got a paltry $345 million. If not for the payola from the rest of Canada Quebec would be languishing in the backwaters of the 19th Century.
The Canadian reality is that the Liberal Party cannot win a majority without Quebec. Meanwhile, the separatists have had a hammer lock on that fiefdom of duplicity for some years and it is not likely to change this time around.
This means the Liberals will need partners to form any government in Ottawa. His choices are the tiny NDP and the separatists which held 47 of the 75 Quebec seats before the election call. This in turn means handing significant power to those who would destroy the country. Of course the separatists will have to be paid for their support.
In other words, when you cast a ballot for the Liberals or the NDP, you are voting in favour of bringing separatist members of parliament into the governing circle. This should be an interesting scenario. If they become part of the government who could they then threaten with separation?
Successive Quebec governments have kept the rest of the country in line by threatening to play the separation card any time the province did not get want it wanted or if someone insulted some sacred doctrine or article of faith in the province.
But this should not be a problem for the Liberals. Accommodating the separatists is what they do best. Under a coalition they could then shovel money into the province openly unlike the Adscam scandal where the Liberals ploughed money into Quebec advertising agencies from 1996 to 2004 without regard to how it would be spent.
As I recall, swimming pools and fancy condos were high on their list of priorities. Of course, no one wants to remember just how corrupt the Liberals had become from too many years in power so we won’t hear much talk of that.
One thing Canadians should be aware of is the Liberal-supporting media agenda in this country to whitewash the role of the separatists should the Liberals win enough seats to cohabitate with them in a cozy coalition.
Already stories are starting to circulate that seem to claim the separatist issue is a red herring or as one headline writer called them “a bogeyman,” insinuating we have nothing to fear from such a coalition.
Watch for stories in the coming weeks telling us the Conservatives cannot be trusted with a majority government. I guess that implies the Liberals can be trusted. If you trust the Liberals with anything, you had better count your fingers after a handshake.
For years now, in their desperation, the opposition parties have tried unsuccessfully to tar the Conservatives with the Liberal corruption brush to little avail. And, yes, there have been some questionable events but nothing like the absolute corruption of the ad agency scandal that sent $100 million into Quebec through the Liberal Sponsorship Program.
You can expect the Liberal media in Canada to take much the same approach with Stephen Harper as the U.S. media did with Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement. They will use ridicule, half-truths and innuendo as much as they did when Harper first ran for office.
They will studiously avoid the separatist issue unless to give it credibility as a workable alternative to the Conservatives. From a media standpoint, the election coverage will be so predictable and so slanted.
We are, as the Chinese would say, living in interesting times.
