11/24/2008

Best move for Liberals: Govern by coalition

This topic won't go away in the Canadian political blog world since the election. Dobbins paints a useful scenario. 

Talk of a parliamentary accord between the Liberals, Bloc and NDP continues across the country, and inside and between the Bloc and NDP parties.

It would take the form of a Liberal minority government, following a non-confidence vote, with a proposal to the Governor General that the three parties would agree to govern for at least two years.

It would be based on a limited policy agenda - for example, child care, climate change, the Kelowna accord, early troop withdrawal from Afghanistan - defined by the considerable overlap in the three parties' election platforms.

The Liberals' Bay Street agenda would be put on hold as the price it paid to survive and rebuild.

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