The Conservative government will unveil a plan Monday to enhance employment insurance benefits for workers who have lost their jobs after spending years in the workforce, a move that might help avert a fall election if it captures the support of the New Democratic Party.
This proposal seems fairly reasonable to this conservative. Sure we're throwing Jack a bone but it wasn't unexpected at all when in fact the Tories wanted to do some reforming to EI on their own anyhow.
I'm certain there will be something else in there as well when the announcement comes down today. However Jack Layton and s=hs New Democrats will support it. I have no doubt. I also have no doubt that he'll be in front of the camera 5 minutes after the vote telling Canada how he made the PM see sense and that he and the NDP was responsible for brokering these new EI reforms. Such is life and such is Jack Layton. Always a politician.
"I'm prepared to fight an election if it comes to it. We're all ready for an election." Mr. Layton told his cheering caucus. "But I have to tell you what I'd rather do. I'd rather be in that House ofCommons with my colleagues working with people from other political parties on behalf of the Canadian people who sent us here just 11 months ago." Source for both quotes.
I believe that Jack Layton, PM Stephen Harper and their respective parties are the only ones who are listening to the voters who are screaming that they don't want a fall election.
Ignatieff and his band of Liberals aren't listening and are still beating their drums of war for no other reason other than to make a power grab. I don't believe that they have any plan for the future at all other than grabbing power. Their pompous and arrogant leader has grown tired of waiting and is used to having things handed to him and is at odds with the Canadian voter. His blue blood is showing, he should be ashamed at how out of touch he is with Canadians.
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