That's what the Liberal Party of Canada has become. These merger talks are a desperate attempt to regain what we once had. The video of 'us' smoking while pathetically trying to sell 'access to our ex/power' will soon be thrown up on youtube.
Abandoning 143 years of history and service for a quick fix, and I'm not sure 'fix' is the right word to use there, because we wont be fixing anything.
I have been a Liberal all of my life, and the name, I am proud of.. an accord will not take it away, but you have to be careful on uniting.
ReplyDeleteWhat about doing what is best for our country? Is letting Harper govern for another four or five years the best we can offer our country?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comments. Loraine, that's the thing that I see as being at the heart of the issue. I haven't seen a projection that has any merged party winning the election. And I'm afraid no reliable prognostication is really viable.
ReplyDeleteI don't think any number of telephone or online polls would be able to tell us what percentage of right leaning Liberals would switch to a conservative vote if the candidate was of their liking. I think a good portion of NDP support goes to the Greens, who then likely take up the left-wing party role across the country and within an few election they might even match NDP seat levels, especially given the importance of their 'main' issue.
But on the whole I also think that a merger doesn't cure what ails the Party. I wrote in another post that we have a mentality that is holding us back. We think we are the best, but aren't willing to put the work in to actually BE the best.
Our party apparatus is decrepit. And I think that can be linked to the mentality issue. The NDP and the CPC can mobilize dedicated groups, while we just think everyone should vote for us. Until we change our party mentality we wont win and the CPC have the chance to do more damage to our country and its people. And a merger likely wont be enough to take down Harper, but a rebuilt, re-tooled and re-energized Liberal party can do just that.