Carney trifft sich vor der Haushaltsansprache mit Oppositionsführern

So the CPC wants “broad tax cuts” and the deficit to stay under 42B. Bloc has a list of demands too. Do we think they will all come to an agreement? As much as my spirit might want another election I don’t know if I could mentally take one lol.

I’d be floored if an election was called. Frankly if it did I think it’s more likely it would be do to some sort of accident of history like one liberal MP getting their car jacked on the way to work or something.

Assuming everything goes right I don’t see how the NDP could stomach another election. I understand there’s a sense that they’ve hit rock bottom and thus there’s literally no where to go but up, and that there’s been some progressive discontent with how right wing Carney seems to be (very much more of a PC than a leftist as some presumed), but I think this is still misguided.

The party is on the precipice and doesn’t have a leader nor official status. They don’t have the funds infrastructure to galvanize support & run through an election at the moment. The idea that they are at rock bottom is incorrect, they could go lower and I doubt they want to try their hand when they don’t even have a leader.

The responses are predictable. The Conservative want to reduce the deficit while cutting taxes somehow. That’s back to the Harper era. It means cutting programs, which we can’t do in the middle of a national crisis. The Bloc wants more of everything. None of this is unexpected.