It would appear that some people, Canadians, have particularly short memories.Presently, in addition to the whinging and whining about Canada’s Government, there is a remarkable amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth regarding the newly established Liberal-NDP coalition.
Lest anyone for one moment forgets, on October 15, 2003, the Canadian Alliance (formerly the Reform Party), led by a younger, almost cherubic Stephen Harper and the Progressive
Conservative Party (under its new leader Peter MacKay), announced that they would merge to form a new party, called the Conservative Party of Canada. This was, no matter how one looks at it, a coalition. This “union” was ratified on December 5, 2003, with 96% support of the membership of the Canadian Alliance, and on December 6, 90.04% support of elected delegates in the Progressive Conservative Party. On December 8, the party was officially registered with Elections Canada, and on March 20, 2004, former Alliance leader Stephen Harper was elected as leader of the party. The new party was dubbed "the Alliance Conservatives" by critics who considered the new party a "hostile takeover" (does this rhetoric sound familiar?) of the old Progressive Conservatives by the newer Alliance.
The new Conservative Party would form Canada’s Federal government on February 6, 2006.
So endeth the lesson.
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