Quote:
Originally Posted by Slava
I really don't know what the Conservatives stand for anymore either: they are not fiscal conservatives and their past five years shows that pretty clearly; they are no socially conservative if we're to believe their recent campaigns. I can't figure out what they're actually trying to "conserve" actually?
|
That's part of the problem of a minority. They've been forced to compromise so much to get things done that it is hard to say how much of it is their policy and how much is bending their policy to suit the other parties.
It had been mentioned earlier that the Stimulus wasn't originally planned but there was a reversal. This was a compromise. I would wager that the amount of stimulus was more than the CPC wanted to spend and still wasn't near what the other parties would have liked, but they all compromised on the amount to get it out there. As a result, it is hard to determine what any one party's line truly is.... but they are all bending to make parliament work.
Is it fair to rail against a party for not compromising, when there is evidence to the contrary, and then slamming the party for the outcomes of this compromise? This goes for the CPC, the LPC, the NDP, etc...