With the Liberal's unwrapping some early Christmas gifts for Canadians on Monday, the talk of a Holiday Season election seems to be heating up. The Day's drama began with a tough talking Prime Minister pretty well dismissing the call for a mid February election, as was suggested by Jack Layton, and seconded by Stephen Harper and Gilles Duceppe last Thursday.
This was followed by the Finance Ministers Economic Statement or as it's starting to look like, Ralph Goodales 12 gifts (give or take) of Christmas, personal and corporate tax cuts (take that eh Jack), money for education, workplace training initiatives, assistance to immigrants, help for the trades and broadband service to remote areas across Canada. And for good measure a suggestion that tax benefits for the working poor might be a dandy idea. All the goodies poured out of Santa Ralph's bag on Monday afternoon.
The Liberals will use the financial statement to suggest that if the government is brought down, the opposition leaders will have more in common with Scrooge, than those Wise Men who went following a star. The Liberals are effectively daring the opposition to bring down this government and stop all this progress, while at the same time intruding on the Christmas season.
How the opposition will handle the gift of giving from their Liberal opponents, could go a long way to determining when Canadians will trudge off to the polls to render a verdict on this Parliament and its participants.
Politics Watch provides us with the dates to watch and a few hints as to just what might be behind the machinations of each party. How they plan jockey for the high ground, in a campaign that may not have much of that land left to hold.
With the talk of an election taking up so much of the time today, it was of interest that an advertisement in the Daily Podunkian caught my eye this evening. Our Local NDP MP, Nathan Cullen is advertising for a local constituency office worker, to work a part time basis of 7.5 hours a week. The employee will help to bring the concerns of the riding to Cullen's Ottawa staff and assist the MP in his duties representing the area. However, this could be the most temporary of temporary jobs, in a town that can set records for short term employment.
The position is posted as lasting three months, but if the election is called and Mr. Cullen should lose his seat, the lucky candidate could be back on the job hunt before his or her boss has had a chance to clean out the Ottawa office.
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