velvetpage: (Jack Layton)
velvetpage ([personal profile] velvetpage) wrote2012-03-27 06:54 am

Boost the signal, please?

In the interests of countering all that "Mulcair will move the party to the centre!!!1!!eleventy" stuff that's all over the media, I wrote an open letter to Mr. Mulcair. I'd appreciate a signal boost, especially from those who often discuss Canadian politics. Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] thebitterguy for doing so on Twitter already.

In other news: I hope Mulcair doesn't shave his beard. I like the beard.

[identity profile] siobhan63.livejournal.com 2012-03-27 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
FYI, it is included in my daily Radical Centrist Daily which I share on Twitter.

http://paper.li/procedurepols/1326917255#

[identity profile] velvetpage.livejournal.com 2012-03-27 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!

[identity profile] mrs-dm.livejournal.com 2012-03-28 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
I like the beard too. I don't know why everyone is making a fuss about it. That said, I thought the edtiorial comic The Spectator today was funny.

[identity profile] velvetpage.livejournal.com 2012-03-28 10:11 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, I saw that one. It earned a chuckle. :)

[identity profile] siobhan63.livejournal.com 2012-03-28 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
What's your reaction to this op ed piece from the Montreal Gazette: http://www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/Editorial+Clarity+stand+come+back+haunt+Mulcair/6361756/story.html

I totally agree with it. That Sherbrooke Declaration is the main reason I don't want the NDP to ever form the government. You guys need to ditch that thing ASAP.

[identity profile] velvetpage.livejournal.com 2012-03-28 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not as thoroughly up-to-date as I need to be on things like the Clarity Act and the sentiments about it in Quebec to make an informed comment on this; my initial impression is that the Sherbrooke Delcaration makes me nervous and I want clarification on it.