My guess is that this coalition would also have at least 3 senior advisors; one of Blakney or Romonow, McKenna and Axworthy.
It would bring in more experience and serious ministerial credentials for no cost.
But of course I’m waiting to see whom among the Conservatives is auditioning for Brutus…

I would imagine Linda Duncan is a shoo-in. The optics of excluding Alberta are horrendous.

And I would hope the NDP pushes for gender parity in their appointments. Although I tend to think this might exclude Olivia and bring in Judy W-L as the Manitoba representative.

Finally, two Liberal Ministers from NL and NS. No way. Eyking?!? Did you get paid to write that?

While the lib-left punditariat is nearly united in favour of this lib-left coalition, the polls are showing that it is wildly unpopular with the Canadian people, more evidence that the media is out of synch with the people and the media’s overwhelming lib-left bias does not reflect Canada. At least half of the Liberal party has strong feelings against Ignatieff, that’s going to be a problem.

This is a shakedown. The socialist bloc doesn’t think Flaherty sufficiently panicked and demands tens of billions in new spending, burdening the next generation with a debt, which violates the principle of taxation without representation. They are *demanding* the government run a massive structural deficit and Flaherty has thus far refused. That’s where we’re at: bringing down a government because it isn’t implementing “disaster socialism” on a grand enough scale. Flaherty has already pumped $12 billion a year back into the economy every year in the form of a GST cut, a cut without which we might well be in an actual recession, not a media contrived imaginary recession.

All of the socialist bloc’s demands might make sense if Canada was really in recession, but as anyone who went shopping this weekend knows, that isn’t the case. Unemployment is near a 30 year low, inflation is low, interest rates are low, Flaherty is going to deliver a third consecutive surplus, mortgage defaults are at historical lows (see Coyne), all of which to say that Liberals and NDP are taking a page out of – dare I say it? – the Bush playbook, and inventing their own fiscal 9-11 in order to spread fear and manufacture consent for massive new spending. It’s a hoax, people.

Civil disobedience is an option. My generation should not be further burdened by Ignatief’s generation’s wingnut socialism. Is fifty billion billion bucks worth taking a stand over? Because that’s what will be left owing after Iggy’s generation cashes out. Boycotts of any and all organizations that support the socialist bloc – including media outlets – are a given. If polls continue to show that 75% of Canadian oppose this shakedown, while the media and a few cherry picked vendu economists gives it a near-unanimous thumbs up, it would appear that the media and corporations are complicit in a government coup widely opposed by the people of Canada.

I don’t mean to get in the way of the liberal media’s fantasy about a far left socialist governement taking power without winning an election,

but,

funny how no one in said media has contemplated the notion that the entire West (and new economic powerhouse of Canada) will be run by folks no one there voted for, but rather from a relatively select few bastions of socialism concentrated in a handful of eastern city ridings.

Kate at Small Dead Animals has a post noting the Western Seperatists are doing the “happy bum dance” today.

Indeed they are.

Up next,

our Eastern big city rulers will propose collectivisation of our farms.

The prarie Ukrainians can eat saw dust bread (and each other if necessary) for old times sake.

Jack, do you have any data supporting your plan to increase spending by tens of billions of dollars to “fight” the imaginary recession that isn’t happening, and that such a plan would work and be acceptable to the people who have to pay for it, and that it isn’t outright fearmongering to manufacture consent for a snatch n’ grab of taxpayer dough? If so, I invite you to compose a well reasoned response.

im sorry, but Fiscal Conservative, I have to ask, are you completely without any shred of intelligence, or are you just a partisan hack?

I’m serious, you said, and I quote (because copy/paste is easy): “the polls are showing that it is wildly unpopular with the Canadian people” as regards a coalition government.

Now, either your making this up out of your paranoid conservative brain, or your completely without any shred of evidence.

The idea of this coalition began in the press, oh, about 8 hours ago. So either your telling me that in the last 8 hours they have done multiple polls or your being a complete idiot and just pretending the Canadian public is on your side.

I’m not saying that the polls wont eventually prove you right, Im just saying your an idiot for claiming that polls that haven’t happened yet have already proved you right.

Please at least have the courtesy to have facts to back up your arguments in future, even if the government you clearly support isn’t capable of it.

Yep, because nothing spells resounding support for the socialist ideals Canadian Wheat Board among farmers, than never voting for left of center parties in rural areas at either a provincial or federal level.

I can’t believe that the Bloc won’t even support a move to a voluntary wheat board. What the hell has it got to do with them?

Under the assumsion that the Lib leadership candidates are left out:

Prime Minister: Stephane Dion, Saint Laurent-Cartierville, Montreal
Minister of Agriculture and Minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency: Wayne Easter, Malpeque, Liberal, PEI
Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages: Marlene Jennings, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine, Liberal, Montreal
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration: Navdeep Bains, Mississauga-Brampton South, Liberal, GTA
Minister of the Environment and Western Economic Diversification: Linda Duncan, Edmonton-Strathcona, NDP, Alberta
Minister of Finance: Ralph Goodale, Wascana, Liberal, Saskatchewan
Minister of Fisheries and Oceans: Siobhan Coady, St. John’s South-Mount Pearl, Liberal, Newfoundland
Minister of Foreign Affairs: Jack Layton, Toronto-Danforth, NDP, GTA
Minister of Health: Ujjal Dosanjh, Vancouver South, Liberal, BC
Minister of Human Resources and Social Development: Gerard Kennedy, Parkdale-High Park, Liberal, Toronto
Minister of Indian Affairs: Anita Neville, Winnipeg South, Liberal, Manitoba
Secretary of State for Northern Development: Larry Bagnell, Yukon, Liberal, North
Minister of Industry: Scott Brison, Kings-Hants, Liberal, Nova Scotia
Minister of International Trade: David McGuinty, Ottawa South, Liberal, Eastern Ontario
Minister of International Cooperation, Minister of State: Pacific Gateway, Sport, 2010 Olympics: Hedy Fry, Vancouver Centre, Liberal, BC
Minister of Justice: Irwin Cotler, Mont Royal, Liberal, Montreal
Minister of Labour: Libby Davies, Vancouver East, NDP, BC
Minister of National Defense and Vet Affairs: Denis Coderre, Bourassa, Liberal, Montreal
Minister of National Revenue: John McCallum, Markham-Unionville, Liberal, GTA
Minister of Natural Resources and FEDNOR: Anthony Rota, Nipissing—Timiskaming, Liberal, Northern Ontario
Minister of Public Safety: Thomas Mulcair, Outremont, NDP, Montreal
Minister of Public Works and Government Services: Brian Murphy, Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe, New Brunswick, Liberal
Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs: Mark Holland, Ajax-Pickering, Liberal, GTA
Minister of Transport: Joe Comartin, Windsor—Tecumseh, Southern Ontario, NDP
Minister of State (Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec): Alexandra Mendes, Brossard—La Prairie, Liberal, Montérégie
President of the Treasury Board: Maurizio Bevilacqua, Vaughn, Liberal, GTA
Secretary of State for Democratic Reform and Government House Leader: Carolyn Bennett, St. Paul’s, Liberal, GTA
Secretary of State for Multiculturalism: Ruby Dhalla, Brampton-Springdale, Liberal, GTA
Secretary of State for Women’s Issues: Judy Wasylycia-Leis, Winnipeg North, NDP Manitoba

Total: 29 (including a few Secs of State)

NDP: 7
Liberals: 22

Women: 9

Newfoundland: 1
Nova Scotia: 1
PEI: 1
Nova Scotia: 1
Quebec: 6
Ontario: 11
Manitoba: 2
Saskatchewan: 1
Alberta: 1
BC: 3
North: 1

Hey Kody (and all you other would-be ‘Western Separatists’ and sympathizers):

I guess this new paradise must surely exclude Vancouver (my home), Victoria, Nanaimo, western Kootenays, Bulkey Valley, downtown Edmonton, parts of Regina and Saskatoon, and Winnipeg, right?

Because a majority of ‘westerners’ in these places voted for the NDP or the Liberals – and have the seats to prove it.

Stop speaking for us. Tell your Tory friends. We know well you are. Unhappy western Conservatives are not synonymous with ‘western Canadians’ and you’re not fooling anyone.

The Wheat Board is very popular with farmers (usually polls in the 85% range) in areas of Manitoba and Sakatchewan that commonly vote Conservative, terry. It works up the ideological Conservatives, but it doens’t get you anyone you don’t already have in the fold. Ending single desk sellnig just isn’t the big vote winner everyone at the Pertroleum club imagines it is. Try asking some farrmers instead of hooting about kulaks and Stalin for once.

Fiscal Conservative wrote:”While the lib-left punditariat is nearly united in favour of this lib-left coalition, the polls are showing that it is wildly unpopular with the Canadian people”

Online polls don’t really count. At this moment, it seems there is only a single poll (CROP, done in Quebec) done on this subject and it doesn’t really support your position: 76% are in favor of a coalition, 9% want for election and 9% are undecided (possibly 6% refused to answer).

As a side note, support for political parties are:
Bloc 36%, LPC 28%, 15% NDP, 15% CPC (Quebec only).