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Stephen Harper is not an easy read.
They called it the "Phoney War" - or, in German, "der Sitzkrieg" (the "sitting war") - that period between the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and the beginning of the Battle of France in the spring of 1940. The two sides dug in and nothing much happened, on the land in Europe at least.
Karlheinz Schreiber, the German-Canadian arms merchant and lobbyist at the heart of the Airbus Affair, was sentenced last week in Augsburg, Germany, to eight years in prison for income tax evasion.
Those two old warriors, Jean Chrétien and Ed Broadbent, have been talking.
Start with the New Democratic Party. Its “orange surge” of recent days — leading to fevered speculation that it would supplant the Bloc Québécois as number 1 in Quebec and the Liberals as number 2 in Ottawa — has been the most arresting development in an otherwise listless election campaign.
It was quite a night! The new Parliament is going to be a very different place.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper promises he will use his new majority to govern on behalf of all Canadians, not just the 40 per cent who voted for him. Assuming he intends to do what he says, what could he do to reassure the 60 per cent who supported candidates and parties on the left of the Tories?
If the federal Liberals don't get their act together, and do it quickly, they risk disappearing into the black hole of Canadian political history. It's a black hole reserved for the likes of the United Farmers, Progressive Conservatives, Social Credit, Union Nationale and, as seems likely, the Bloc Québécois - parties that struggled on after their time had come.
"There's no doubt that the energy (from) the federal election … has created a wind under our wings and has created excitement." - Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath.
Rupert Murdoch is in a mess of trouble in Britain and the aftershocks are being felt by his extensive holdings as far away as his native Australia and his adopted United States.
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