It’s Joe vs Alice in Richmond
Share (Sorry for not updating. Am going to HK for a month… so much to finish before I take my annual holiday.) Anyway, this’s just in: Mason Loh loses his nomination bid in Richmond (see previous story). Joe Peschisolido gets it. Raymond Chan loses out in first round… rumour is that his ballots are then thrown behind Joe. Joe didn’t expect to win. He wasn’t in the room when the results were announced. Alice Wong should... [Read More...]
Political ’show-hand’ poker
Share After two weeks of intense election-no-election drama in Ottawa, it’s obviously by now that we will not have a fall election. Ignatieff has shown he’s a gambler, and he has strategically changed the ecological environment in Ottawa. Now after years of being battered as being the lower hand, the Liberals are now completely on the offensive.Ignatieff must have been a good poker player. He dare to make the most dangerous bet. I think... [Read More...]
Letter: Upcoming choice – Coalition compromise or ideological intolerance
Share Dear editor, Doesn’t Stephen Harper get it? “If we do not get a majority, the Liberals, the NDP and the Bloc Quebecois will combine and they will form a government … If we do not win a majority, this country will have a Liberal government propped up by the socialists and the separatists,” Stephen Harper said in Sudbury, where Progressive Conservative Stephen Butcher was bumped as the last Tory candidate in favour of an evangelical... [Read More...]
Group sues Harper over 2008 election call
Share Isn’t this interesting? I just love the timing. Look forward to all the exciting drama in Ottawa!! More! More! Harper’s lawyers argue the PM has the right to call. Oh yes, if you go down to the word-by-words, of course you can always find something to justify anything. But it’s the PRINCIPLE behind the whole legislation! Last year, I was very angry when Harper called a snap election. This year, I’m not. Harper’s... [Read More...]
Liberal parties federal and provincial
Share I have a thought today that if Ignatieff’s Liberals want to gain grounds in BC and Ontario, they have to make a clear case that they are NOT the same brand as Gordon Campbell’s BC Liberals and McGuinty’s Liberals. This is especially important among newer immigrants. In BC, it’s very common among new Chinese immigrants that they cannot distinguish between the federal and provincial Liberals. As Campbell is becoming BC’s... [Read More...]
EI reform joke
Share Disgusted. Same old tactic over and over again. I’m soooo tired. Bring some creativity to Ottawa guys! EI reform itself doesn’t warrant an election. The Liberals MUST bring some fresh AND specific ideas on how they can do a better job on the economy, though Canadians who hate the Harper government can’t wait for another chance to oust the regime. Perhaps the Grits don’t wanna unveil their plan too early — just like... [Read More...]
Three-head race in Liberal’s Richmond nomination
Share For the nation’s most densely Chinese-populated city, Richmond, the Liberal nomination is running extremely hot. Three well-known names are fighting to represent the Grits to beat Conservative sitting MP Alice Wong in the next federal election. They are: former MPs Raymond Chan and Joe Peschisolido, and well-known lawyer and former chair of SUCCESS Mason Loh. Dean Beauvais with the Liberal’s Richmond Riding Association confirmed... [Read More...]
Letter: No Need for another election
Share Dear Editor, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff and his party seem to be bent on plunging Canada into another federal election. If this happens this will be the fourth election in five years and the second one within a year. We might beat even Italy on this one. At this time there is no need for another federal election. In view of the current unstable economic environment, Canada needs stability more than ever before. Certainly, Stephen Harper... [Read More...]
The rationale behind Ignatieff’s election talks
Share Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff speaks to reporters following the Liberal's summer caucus in Sudbury, Ont., on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. (CP) So Michael Ignatieff played the crouching tiger during the summer for deliberately getting off the camera so that he could surprise his enemies on the first day of fall that he’s ready to take Canadians to the poll again? If yes, he’s quite successful. By announcing he’s not supporting... [Read More...]
Letter: Hell bent of an election
Share Dear Editor, We are not having a summer election – that’s six weeks of bad television and partisan editorials on steroids that will not disturb our vacations. Yah! Of course there are still serious issues to discuss: the near fatal death of manufacturing in Canada, a nuclear-medical global crises, and growing personal economic tragedies. Naturally, opposition parties are anxious to hold Mr. Harper to account, at the very moment... [Read More...]
