The Tiger at Home

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  Josh // May 8, 2008 at 10:56 pm

  Wells is wrong - the CBC was created (under a different name) by R.B. Bennett. Anyhow, King’s success came in his ability to exploit the Liberals’ position as mild reformists to co-opt first the Progressives and the CCF by adopting the latter’s policies - in 1943, there was a period when the CCF has topped national polls, and it’s not outside the realm of possibility that had King not adopted many social welfare policies as Liberal ones, he would have went the way of Churchill’s Conservatives after the war.

  So… I think Wells needed a column topic and decided to draw some thin parallels between Harper and the psychic-consulting and ruin-constructing King. Where’s the bizarre eccentricity? Anyway, Canada of 2008 scarcely resembles Canada of 1921-1948… I’ll stake out my prediction that we’ll continue down the path of fragmentation of the party system, which has been the result in Japan and India where a once-hegemonic machine party has become ever weaker.

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  Alan // May 9, 2008 at 8:45 am

  What’s the bizzare eccentricity? How about a guy who apparently has not one idea other than “less” and “protect my side” believes he is some sort of enlightened guru on politics. He is only in because the others turned out so morally bankrupt and as a vestige of a 20 year battle within conservatism that left itself in the tatters where it, too, remains - fulfilling Chretien’s blue Liberal policies all along the way. If he has his way, Canada will look a lot like a watered down EU - except without Ontario to play the role of Germany. That will be great.

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