Tory support slips to 2006 vote level

[Athlétique.Canadien]

but Alberta...

Their environmental evasion is GETTING ON MY NERVES!

There are many farmers in Alberta so go ahead dummies, let the cash flow from oil revenue and turn your beloved province into a dust bowl. Where's the logic in that?

Edited May 2, 2007 by ATHLÉTIQUE.CANADIEN

[Pierre the Great]

Their environmental evasion is GETTING ON MY NERVES!

There are many farmers in Alberta so go ahead dummies, let the cash flow from oil revenue and turn your beloved province into a dust bowl. Where's the logic in that?

Greed trumps all.

money talks.

And it dilutes future outlook that should say "hey, this isn't good for us, we need the snow melt in the mountains or our lively hoods vanish."

instead its "full steam ahead"

[Athlétique.Canadien]

I should add I'm yelling at the establishment - not at citizens

[Pierre the Great]

I should add I'm yelling at the establishment - not at citizens

I know.

Usually its the establishment that gets in the way of anything.

[Athlétique.Canadien]

This is a time when the government and the party should be doing damage control and hoping that Canadians have a bad memory which is sadly, usually the case.

But noooooooo, can't have that can we. C's are in full blown "Scandal of the week"

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/05/07/...n-expenses.html

[Pierre the Great]

Harper's government is badly out of focus

Not clear where the PM goes from here

Chantal Hebert

Prime Minister Stephen Harper used to vow that he would lead a government that stuck to its knitting, a way to say that it would focus on a few core federal missions. But as his Conservatives face a second year in office, they seem to have run out of wool.

Fifteen months into his first mandate, Harper has exhausted the modest platform he campaigned on in 2006. It is unclear where he takes his government from here.

The question predates the recent slip of the Conservatives in the polls. Even as the party was on a roll in the winter, government strategists were hard-pressed to articulate a policy rationale for seeking a majority in a spring election.

Now that the odds of an imminent campaign are lower, the issue of the government's direction has become more pressing.

As the recent Conservative floundering on the Afghan mission has demonstrated, governments can quickly lose their focus and, with it, their cohesiveness.

The accountability issue got Harper into office but it will not keep him there, and certainly won't give him a majority. In the absence of an ethics-driven crisis, the public tends to treat accountability issues as an inside-the-beltway government concern.

Full Column

http://www.thestar.com/article/210682