Not counting blessings before they’re hatched. I’m not confident this war is over yet, and I don’t think we know the ultimate outcome until it is. We may not know clearly for quite a long time yet what role the war plays in world history.

In the 1930s, Professor Frank H. Underhill of the University of Toronto also argued that Canada’s two major political parties, the Liberals and the Conservatives, operated in similar ways by advancing the same policies appealing to the same variety of sectional/regional and class interests. In doing so, Canada had perfected the two-party system and had marginalized liberalism and radicalism. Underhill argued the result was a pervasive poverty in Canadian political culture. Not coincidentally, Underhill was centrally involved in the formation of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, a farmer-labour coalition born during the Great Depression which became Canada’s first successful federal third party, the social-democratic New Democratic Party.

That was an interesting little bit of history I did not know.

Painful story to read. Sounds like a community that’s really going through hard times.

Corporate retreat is a hellish nightmare? Familiar.

I took the time to read it and found it worthwhile. Actually, also kind of refreshing. It’s nice to have an analysis that’s hopeful for better days in Albertan democracy, even if there is high risk at present and in coming years. I hope your hypotheses end up being right.

Maybe he offers an enticement of marginally less brow beating.

Yeah, just a question of how it’s going to shake out in terms of what weights are given to each these by those MPs, and what enticements are on offer after the majority is achieved. I would imagine those looking for enticements and who were smart about it are the ones who already made the moves, expecting that their best opportunity would be gone once the majority is achieved. Probably also some who looked for enticements to stay too, and what Poilievre was willing to offer them would also have been a factor in the decision.

Interesting topic. I feel your post here would benefit from a short summary of main points if you want more people to dive in and read/discuss it.

The majority is basically achieved assuming the seats that are up this month go as forecast. It will be interesting to see what happens after that. I wonder if we see more happen because Conservative MPs want to be in government and crossing is their only hope, or if we see fewer as a result of less being offered to entice floor crossers.

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