Bye bye. Now give us a leader who will wipe out the HST

A leadership competition for the NDP is now in the stars. Good luck finding a new leader.Candidates from "one degree left of centre to candidates so far left they haven't fallen to the ground yet. Good luck finding a lefty replacement that can please the whole arc of the left wing dippers. Just a little to the left NDP or just so far left they're off the chart. IMO there are no leaders left in this world. Right, left or centre. Good luck, dippers.

now the bakers dozen has greater power than the 21 sheeps.

You know what they say, divide and conquer.

With the liberals we can probably look forward to Kevin Falcon,who is just a younger version of Gordon Campbell.He looks at times as though he is going to blow a nut,steam is going to come out his ear cannals and nostrils,with the hair on his head standing up on end.Please liberal members,select anyone but this jerkoff.

I mentioned leadership skills....but I digress. Better to just grab one person at any bus stop and make them a politician. What could go wrong?

Here we are bickering about our political party leaders when we have a real Canadian crisis on our hands..

http://news.sympatico.ca/oped/coffee-talk/tim_hortons_festive_mug_loses_the_maple_leaf_in_quebec/3c5452b7

Kevin Falcon wins his candidacy, postures for a bit, and calls a snap election. Carole James and the NDP will not be organized enough to make a go of it. That would be so sweet.

How can he call a snap election when we're stuck with a 'fixed election date'?

Or does that go the way of the mandatory 'balanced budget' legislation ? Out the window, in the interests of trying to get elected again?

I'm not for either ~ 'fixed election dates' have no place in a parliamentary system where the government should always be prepared to take responsibility for its actions, one at a time, at any time; while a 'balanced budget' under the current system of government accounting is a complete fallacy ~ but you'd think that a party like the BC Liberals, a group that's supposed to be organised in a 'business-like' manner, wouldn't be wasting it's time and our money enacting legislation it only has to subsequently repeal. Makes them look like idiots, (which seems to be pretty much what they are).

Wow! Even Tim Hortons is bowing to the huge population of Quebec.

It is a common misconception that the old way of calling an election (on the decision of the Premier/Lieutenant Governor) was replaced with a fixed election date. That is not the case. The fixed election date is IN ADDITION to the old way, and the old way is still an option. The new Premier, whomever that is, could quite legally advise the Lieutenant Governor to dissolve the Legislature and call an election.

Kevin Falcon wins his candidacy? For real? Save us a step and pack it in now! We don't want him in there he's an idiot! But seriously can't Dan Rogers see whats going on with all these people we want to step down, (Gordon, Carole) and join suit? It would make a perfect year if he would do it before New Years, even better if he did it before Christmas. Come on Dan join the masses , step down , admit it was too much for you.

carol will join conservatives,has anybody noticed the calls from the part in the last 2 days? are u supporters of conservatives? i said no!

My understanding was that the government would have to be defeated on a confidence vote first, ammonra. That the purpose of the 'fixed election date' was to deny the previous right of the Premier to call an election anytime he thought he could win one.

In the case of a confidence vote that the government lost, then the Premier would advise the Lieutenant-Governor that his Party had lost the confidence of the House, and that parliament should be dissolved and an election called. That certainly was the way it was explained when Campbell introduced that law. If what you're saying now is so, it comes as some surprise to me.

On general elections the constitution act says:-

23 (1) The Lieutenant Governor may, by proclamation in Her Majesty's name, prorogue or dissolve the Legislative Assembly when the Lieutenant Governor sees fit.

(2) Subject to subsection (1), a general voting day must occur on May 17, 2005 and thereafter on the second Tuesday in May in the fourth calendar year following the general voting day for the most recently held general election.

(3) In subsection (2), "general election" and "general voting day" have the same meanings as in section 1 of the Election Act.

The important point is paragraph (1), which says the Lieutenant Governor may prorogue the Legislature whenever he sees fit. Now, I presume that a loss of a confidence vote would stimulate an election under that section, but the act does not limit it to that case. It can be done whenever the LG sees fit. Note that the fixed election section (paragraph (2)) is subject to the section giving the LG almost complete authority to call an election. All the Premier has to do is get the LG to call an election and it can be quite legally held, regardless of what politicians said when the amendment to section 23 was passed. Think of the fixed date as a maximum rather than a minimum.