After the last Conservative budget the Liberals, under new leader Michael Ignatieff, indicated that they were holding the CPC on “probation” and that they expected updates on how things were proceeding.
Now, with their popularity lagging in the polls and the economy starting to turn around the Liberals are finding themselves with a shrinking list of reasons to force and election. That’s probably why Ignatieff is now telling anyone who will listen that the Conservative government is on “life support” and that the Liberals are going to pull the plug.
Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff’s main task today: turn the doves in his caucus into hawks, and set forth a plan to take down the Tory government in the fall.
“We’ve kept this government on life support for 10 months,” Ignatieff said during a summer caucus retreat in Sudbury, Ont. on Monday, noting his party supported the Tories’ recession budget last January despite major reservations.
“But in June I made it clear that in a whole number of areas, the government’s performance was letting Canada down and it hasn’t got better over the summer.”
In reality, since the last election the Liberals – first with Dion and the ill-fated coalition between the Liberals, Bloc, and NDP, to Ignatieff – have been stalking the Conservative government with a pillow waiting for a chance to smother the government into another election.
It’s fairly clear the only “platform” the Liberals have is “get back into power” and they don’t seem to care how many $300-million kicks at the can it will take. The Liberals aren’t even ashamed to point that out – with a number of insiders indicating much of the weeks meetings are being dedicated to when to force an election.
I guess they can worry about policy later.
- Rafael.
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