I don't think that the "change horses" thing is true. Many, many countries around the world have had turnover at the top. Now, in many of those countries, they fared worse economically than we did. It would seem that prudent banking restrictions put in place by the Liberals are now protecting the Conservative minority government. If anything, Canadian may elect the Conservatives because of the LACK of financial crisis.
The census issue may die too soon for the Liberals. They will introduce their legislation and it will be back in the news again soon, but they can't drag it into the fall since the census unit needs to start putting in their final changes soon. They were under tight deadlines before this issue came up, so now it's even more difficult. Trying to drag this into October would be pointless since STC would likely be unable to accomodate any further changes by that time. But the reverberations may last longer... there is a lack of trust issue that is growing. As I mentioned earlier in this thread, the issue may die, but the characteristics shown by the handling of this issue may stick like mud.
|