Speech from the Throne: My Thoughts

Todays speech from the throne was many things.

Boring, directionless, vague. Not a whole lot of change. A vast majority of the policies were taken from Liberals as the Conservatives try to hide their reform ideas in the centre-right.

Stephane Dion has one of two options: Have all of his MPs vote against the speech; or be the only Liberal to show tomorrow and vote against it. The latter option would show that the Liberals oppose the speech while not plunging the nation into an election. It is quite clear that, from a general public perspective, an election is not wanted. Personally, an election sounds better than the prospect of continuing drama and suspense that is destined to occur if one is not called.

Its seems the Bloc is under the thought that if the speech is passed, they will support the most plausible next vote of confidence, the anti-crime legislation, and probably most others until the budget. This does give some hope to Mr.Dion if he can pull through this week.

More of my opinions in the coming days, especially with Stephane Dion announcing his intentions tomorrow.