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To: jayt who wrote (24578)	11/1/2006 2:14:01 PM
From: LoneClone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37387

For those of you who don't know Canadian politics, the government that brought in the new rules is a minority Conservative government. (Keep in mind that the Conservative party in Canada, as with its conservative counterparts in the other advanced democracies, is quite a bit to the left of most American Democrats on most issues.) The other main parties include: -the Liberals, aka the Natural Governing Party, who usually rule due to the proven practise of poaching the best ideas from the parties to the left and right of them, but are currently in the middle of a leadership campaign after losing the last election -the NDP, who are left-wingers of the sort that makes the American right wing loonies foam at the mouth while losing their reason -The Bloc Quebecois, whose avowed goal is separation for Quebec but whose real goal is to get as much as possible for Quebec by raising the spectre of separation. They are generally between the Liberals and NDP in their policies. Only the Conservatives and Liberals have any chance of forming a government. Though the Conservatives have the most seats in the current parliament, the other parties have enough seats that the coalitions and horse-trading that have been occurring should be an object of study by game theorists. The other fillip is that no one wants an election right now -- the electorate is sick of election campaigns after electing two minority governments in a row, the Conservatives were already unpopular and now will be pariahs, and the Liberals are in the middle of a leadership campaign. That said, the NDP is threatening to trigger an election of the Conservative's lax greenhouse gas plan. It recalls the Confucian curse -- "May you live in interesting times!". LC