Oh boy! Here we go!
Literally minutes after Michael Ignatieff, leader of Canada’s Liberal Party, announced that he would no longer support the Conservative minority government on Stephen Harper, Stephen Harper comes out and says that the decision goes against Canada’s interests in this economic downturn.
The phony election campaign has begun, and the government isn’t even out of power yet. Whilst political instability is never a good thing, you could never call a minority government stable, given the fact it could get voted out at any time.
The fact is Harper’s Conservative government has been behind the curve on economic recovery from day 1 of this global recession, whilst other countries including the US, UK, France and Germany have been ahead of the curve.
Harper has been given too many chances to just limp on. I’m glad that some decisive action will be taken. Decisiveness is just what Canada needs right now, in order to catch up with other countries. But whether that will be best served by Michael Ignatieff, Jack Layton, or a different prime minister is another question altogether.
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