Bwaa ha ha ha!
I can envision only one scenario in which Blockhead becomes Prime Minister:
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In the next election, the Alliance picks up about 100 seats while the BQ gets 55 or so.
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Blockhead and the Alliance would immediately give the BQ anything it wanted in return for forming a government in which Blockhead was PM. (Trust me; if the numbers added up, the Alliance would whore itself to the separatists like smack fiends working for dimebag money.)
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Less than two months after the coalition was in place, Alliance backbenchers would go into open revolt. A dozen or more would cross the floor.
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A non-confidence vote is held and Blockhead’s government falls after four inglorious months.
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The Alliance is annihilated in the followup election. Blockhead goes into the history books as a PM along the lines of John Turner and Kim Campbell.
And that’s the BEST he can hope for. You’re being a little ridiculous by suggesting he’d set up concentration camps, but it should make you feel better knowing he has no future. He won’t have time to get his stuff unpacked at 24 Sussex before he has to move out.
Prior to this Lorne Goddard fiasco I thought Stockwell Day was just a rube I disagreed with. Now I’m starting to think he’s actually pretty damned stupid. The Alliance should have nominated Keith Martin. Actually, they never should have changed their name.
FOR AMERICANS: Lorne Goddard is an Alberta lawyer and school board trustee. Last year he was employed in the defense of a convicted pedophile who was charged with additional counts of molestation and a charge of possession of child pornogrqaphy.
Some months before this case, a British Columbia court ruled that Canada’s law against child porn was too vague and so was an unconstitutional violation of the freedom of expression (the law was horribly written.) Goddard invoked this precedent, or tried to, on his client’s behalf against the child porn charge.
Stockwell Day (previously refered to as “Blockhead”) who was then the Minister of Finance for the province of Alberta, then wrote a letter to the editor of the local daily - on official parliamentary stationery, no less - castigating Goddard for offering this defense, implying that Goddard personally believed it was okay to possess child porn, and theorized that maybe Goddard thought it was okay for him to possess nudie shots of the kids in his school board.
The breathtaking stupidity of Day’s comments is obvious; Goddard’s a lawyer doing his job. Canadians are entitled to competent defense. If he doesn’t invoke that precedent (the guy lost anyway, BTW) he’s not doing his job. Everyone has a right to competent defense and a fair trial. Invoking that precedent no more proves you personally like child porn than defending O.J. proves Barry Sheck personally enjoys murder. DUH.
Anyway, Goddard immediately sued Day for libel, an open-and-shut case if ever there was one, but Day would not settle. So it wound through the courts for awhile until finally Day’s legal bill was about $800,000 (Cdn, a bit more than half a million U.S.)
Then, in a poetically wonderful twist, guess who picks up that tab? Not Blockhead; nope, the people of the province of Alberta get to foot the bill. Why? Because Alberta has an insurance fund for its MLAs to protect them from lawsuits, and the first million is a deductible, so Day’s entire legal bill is now on the taxpayer’s backs. The really wonderful part is that Day built his entire reputation on cost-cutting and deficit-fighting and saving, in his words, “the sweat-soaked loonies” of the taxpayer (loonies are our $1 coins.) So Mr. Debt Fighter just added almost a million bucks to the deficit. The people of Alberta are, on the whole, really pissed off.
And Day’s apology last week indicated he STILL doesn’t understand the letter he wrote was stupid.
