CBC unmasks Tory Hidden Agenda at last!

In what's being billed as possibly the greatest journalistic coup in Canadian History, the CBC has finally uncovered the elusive Tory Hidden Agenda.

First hinted at by former Prime Minister Paul Martin in 2004, the Hidden Agenda has remained exactly that, hidden through three federal elections and almost four years of Tory government.

However that did not dissuade many reporters to continue to seek the Holy Grail of Canadian Journalism.

And now at last it has been discovered. Uncovering the Hidden Agenda was as you can imagine no easy task, at a rally for Conservative supporters attended by just several hundred people and only known to several thousand, a freelance reporter managed to tape Prime Minister Stephen Harper unveiling the super secret Conservative agenda. Secretly taping the Prime Minister by use of a camera phone from the front row pointed directly at the Prime Minister the entire shocking speech was recorded, occasionally with the Prime Minister talking directly to the camera, apparently blissfully unaware the Hidden Agenda was soon to be hidden no more.

Among the shocking revelations breathlessly reported on by the CBC soon after it received the incriminating evidence - perhaps number one is that the Conservative Party is seeking a majority government! Both the CBC and the Globe and Mail reported the grisly truth about the Conservative Party - they want to be in power for at least another four years without an annual trek to the polling booth. Formally that sort of unbridled quest for power was reserved for the Liberal Party, but now the Conservatives have revealed they will seek a majority mandate as well. The CBC and the Globe and Mail of course condemned the Tories for their hubris. 

That was only the beginning; also contained in the speech was the Prime Minister's rejection of large government bureaucracies and a left leaning judiciary, both are ideas that most people are surprised to learn the PM rejects. Yes it is true the PM has in the past written and commented extensively on his small government/libertarian ideology but never before have those thoughts been caught on camera and leaked to the CBC. 

Liberal Party insiders say this just goes to show the Conservatives can't be trusted, when despite what they've been saying all along their real goal is to go out and form a stable government.  

Liberal leader supports coalition

Liberal Party of Canada leader Michael Ignatieff supported a coalition of left leaning parties, namely the NDP and Bloc Quebecois in December of 2008, although he is now claiming he did not support any such coalition in January of 2009.

What happened in three short weeks to make Ignatieff do such an about face on the coalition? Well poll numbers basically - with the coalition idea facing massive public opposition Ignatieff now says he never supported the coalition and basically it was a really bad idea in the first place. That's clearly how he's felt since last January... December is ancient history and nobody wants to talk about what happened way back then.

In May of this year Ignatieff went further in distancing himself from the coalition, the then newly minted Liberal leader in a tour of the western provinces said, "the last thing this country needs now is an NDP Finance Minister." 

However there are those who remember when the aspiring Prime Minister claimed a Liberal/NDP coalition was needed to prevent the Conservatives from running the economy into the ground.

Back then Ignatieff and NDP leader Jack Layton demanded (and received) a multi-billion dollar stimulus package that has sent the country back into deficit for the first time in a decade.

Ignatieff has hinted in the run-up to a possible fall election that the deficit and how to eliminate it will likely be part of his campaign, saying the Tories have been irresponsible in allowing the country to fall back into debt financing. No word yet if he would consider a coalition to pressure the Tories into eliminating the deficit should the Liberals fail to form the next government.