Luke Walker|reklaw

Not to say that we’re not on heading toward recession, that the downturn in the US economy is doing anything to help our situation, or that everything is rosy and great.

BUT:

Do we really have a banking crisis in Canada? Just throwing this out there for thoughts… Peter Mansbridge, in his interview with Stephen Harper today, mentioned the banking crisis several times (watch). I’m not denying that we live in an interconnected world, that the US economy won’t drag ours down, or that our financial institutions stand alone, separate from the global banking system. But when no banks have failed, and the biggest issue they’re having seems to be that they’re stuck with (in CIBC’s case, very substantial) bad sub-prime mortgage debt from the US… When Canadian companies like Manulife are looking to scoop up American behemoths like AIG… (more…)

Canada’s got a big choice ahead of it. Ideally, it would be a race for the Prime Minister’s office. Realistically, it’s a battle against a Conservative majority and [impending doom music] the end of Canada as we know. Jokes, jokes. But a majority would be bad, and it’s a tough fight for those trying to stop it.

The campaign, in typical Canadian style, isn’t overly negative–even the attack ads. Take bushharper.com. A simple site with a simple premise. Stephen Harper’s politics are the same as GW Bush’s. A couple of videos that make a couple off good points. Nothing too intense. Googling it, I saw of lot of the obvious ‘wow, that’s desperate’ from conservative/Conservative bloggers, and perhaps it is. I tend to think it’s more right on the money than it is desperate, but whatever. That’s not what this is about.

What this is about is how much these videos/this site say about the Liberal party’s really bad job at messaging. The Liberals, you say? How did they come up? (more…)