Will they or won’t they?
The long and short of it is this: we only just had an election, the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada is uncertain (and Stephane Dion is essentially unelectable), and many of the parties aren’t in great shape financially. The NDP and the Conservative Party of Canada are about the only two parties that could actually duke it out in a second full-scale election campaign, and then only modestly.
So: will the opposition parties vote to topple the government — in response to Stephen Harper’s proposal to end public funding of political parties — or won’t they? They’re threatening to…but that’s the problem with threats: you either have to carry through with them or accept that your own credibility as an opponent will be forever undermined when you fail to act.
Is this even the time to force an election? What would Canadians — already poll-weary after not only participating in our their general election, but also watching the drama of the American election — do to any party (or parties, in this case) that forced them to go back to the polls again early next year? Would they punish that party at the polls? Neither the Liberals nor the NDP have that much credibility left to burn, do they?
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