Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Turn your head and COF

I haven't yet seen a full copy of the Cons' platform online, so there may be even worse ideas in there somewhere. But it would seem virtually certain that this is at least near the top of the list of utterly useless proposals which the Cons are trying to pass off as a meaningful vision for Canada:
They're also promising a “Charter of Open Federalism” to enshrine the original division of powers among provinces and Ottawa.
From what I can tell, the promise effectively amounts to a declaration that the Constitution Act, 1867 - which has of course governed the division of powers between the federal and provincial levels for the past 141 years - will continue to do so.

Now, it could be that the Cons' microtargeting efforts have unearthed a surprisingly large number of Norberts and Esmereldas who have been on the edge of their respective seats wondering whether Canada's constitutional documents continued to exist. But I'd have to figure that a lot more voters will recognize that the Cons are flailing for lack of anything useful to offer - making it highly unlikely that the Cons' hastily-assembled platform will do anything to stop the Cons' slide in the polls.

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