I didn’t get to see the english debate on Friday, but I certainly got my fill of analysis over the weekend and I just wanted to make a quick comment on the united front that Martin is now facing.

With the Conservatives, NDP, and the Bloc pulling together (at least for the debates anyway) to try and yank some votes away from the Liberals, I wonder if this is a good thing for Canada.  Forming political alliances to get through procedural motion in the house is one thing, but forming an alliance in the middle of a campaign is a little scary.

In the last few months of Parliment, we saw the Liberals and the NDP forming a tempory alliance to keep things together.  This is not that surprising a partnership as the policy almost lines up, but to think that a Conservative government is going to be able to work with either the NDP or the Bloc in a working scenario is absolutely ludicrus. 

So what if they succeed?  What if they do manage to take enough votes away from the liberals to make an opening for the conservatives?  Badness, that’s what happens.  A conservative minority government would be such a tremendous waste of time.  Social conservative policy aside, there is no way that they will get anything done in Parliment.  The liberals and the NDP will again align there votes and will almost be able to veto any motion that comes up.  (Which is a bit of comfort…)

I think that Canada needs a strong majority government to get anything done.  From my totally unskilled analysis, there is no hope of a conservative majority and the other opposition parties simply aren’t playing the game.  So if the Liberals can continue to build a following, than there is hope yet.  However, with the campaign going negative so early though, anything could happen.

Too bad we couldn’t just talk about policy issues.  Now we get into the rotten vegitables and bad pictures of leaders stage of the campaign.