Wednesday, October 15, 2008

The Conservative party's economic "plan"

As reported by the CBC:
  1. Hold a first ministers meeting to discuss the global financial crisis.
  2. Continue to work with other G7 nations to take "appropriate actions" to support Canada's financial system.
  3. Summon Parliament to meet in the fall.
  4. Send Harper to meet with European Union leaders later this week to discuss the economic crisis and strengthen Canada's economic partnership with the EU.
  5. Attend a summit of G-20 finance ministers in Brazil in early November.
  6. Continue a review of departmental spending.
But let's make it clear and simple, the way Steve likes it:
  1. Hold a meeting.
  2. Do something unspecified.
  3. Hold a meeting with the rest of the government.
  4. Attend a meeting.
  5. Attend a meeting.
  6. Do something that we were already doing anyway.
This is not a plan. There's not much more to say than that. It might qualify as a plan for forming a plan. Beyond that it's useless.

And there you have it

Status quo. Despite much talk of majorities and coalitions, we have a mundane minority. The green party goes back to having no seats, the Conservatives gain some ground, but in the balance it's the same.

Here are a few things I'll be watching from now:
  • Will the party of openness and accountability be held accountable for wasting $300,000,000 on an early and possibly illegal election?
  • Will this new old Parliament be "dysfunctional"? (By what measure?) And if not, will the party of openness and accountability be held accountable for lying about the need to dissolve Parliament?
  • Will the party of openness and accountability stick to their platform?