About 45 million dollars. That culture cut was ill-timed, and cost the Conservatives a lot of seats in Quebec. That cut alone allowed the Bloc to regain their lustre and attack the Conservatives. I am glad that where the Conservatives won seats, they usually had pretty stellar margins of victory. The beachhead is secure.
I am pleasantly surprised by the Conservative results from last night. We did better then I had hoped. It was surprising to see the Quebec seats hold despite all the naysayers, and good to see some big gains in Ontario, especially the 905 area.
Newfoundland was a disappointment, but really, what could you expect. Danny Williams got his wish, and proved that he is the small man of Confederation. I am not aware of any Premier ever doing this before. Newfoundland now doesn't have a voice in government, all because they wanted special treatment.
I had said earlier that we needed to pick up 15-20 seats to make this election worthwhile, we made that. With 16 additional seats you could say that each additional Conservative seat cost the taxpayer $18,750,000. Money well spent to avoid the economic ruin that Dion and Layton would have caused.
And I would have spent 50 million to see that shameless self-promoter Turner go down in defeat! Boy I am glad he did! That made my night, I was awaiting the counting of ballots in my poll when I read that news on my Blackberry. It was a good day.
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''That culture cut was ill-timed, and cost the Conservatives a lot of seats in Quebec.''
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''I am pleasantly surprised by the Conservative results from last night.''
2 + 2 my friend.
IMO taking a Conservative stand on wastefull special interest spending and crime, won more than it lost.
What nobody has pointed out, is that the reaction to the culture cuts/crime legislation in the ROC shot up Cons numbers, and they remained higher.
Msm may have focused on Quebec's reaction, but the real story was the ROC.
Without Ontario/BC PMSH would not have gotten a majority either.
A majority was never in the cards, this time out, just like PMSH said from the beginning.
The real story of this election is the west/east split that has developed in Canada.West of the Manitoba/Ontario border, the Conservatives picked up 77% of the available seats. East of that border they garnered one third. I don't see that split changing anytime soon, particulary in the west. Danny Willaims may be able to dictate to his people how they will vote, but even Stephen Harper's hand-picked candidate in Edmonton got beaten by an Independent Conservative that the riding wanted. Westerners tend to make better lone wolves than they do sheep. The Liberals can gain a majority with just Ontario and Quebec; the Tories cannot. As soon as the Conservatives got close to majority territory the old anti-western biases kicked in. A western prime minister with a majority is anethama in the east. Gilles Duceppe said it best: "They're not one of us."
Wilson, I don't think there was any big bump in the polls from the RoC from the arts cuts.
I don't think the arts cuts were a deciding factor in the RoC, it was a deciding factor in Quebec.
I agree with Wilson. After the arts cuts and "Gala comments" came out and the young offenders in jail platform came out, the Ontario numbers started to go up while the Quebec numbers went down.
Danny Williams treats Newfoundland and Labrabor like his own little fiefdom and is disenfranchising that province just like the separatist Gilles Duceppe is doing in Quebec.
Danny's misguided and self-centred personal mission resulted in having no MP on the government side to represent Newfoundland and Labrabor in Canada's 40th Parliament.
Congratulations, Danny Williams!
Danny, gloat in your negativism, then sulk, and then kick yourself in the ass when you realize what you have done.
The East-West split is true but another aspect is the urban - rural split. As the Liberal left continues to tout urban values in the pursuit of the urban vote we see a widening of the gap between the two solitudes of the 21st century. I speak of course of the cultural divide between urban and rural Canadians. At present only the Conservative Party is pledged to represent ALL Canadians.
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