For the foreseeable future?

[chickenfeet]

According to today's Globe and Mail, the front runners for the leadership of the new 'united right' are as follows:

Belinda Stronach
Chuck Strahl
Jim Prentice
Peter MacKay
Stephen Harper
Tony Clement

Anybody know the odds on the Liberals staying in power for the next 50 years?

Comments

[badasstronaut.livejournal.com]

Canada just wouldn't suit right-wingness. Couldn't the right wingers all just cross over the border? You could trade, sort of like with war prisoners. And probably Canada should annexe (is that the correct word? I'm not good at war stuff) California too, to give the hippies a break.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Canada has had Tory governments in the not too distant past and Alberta has a right wing provincial government most of the time.

Trouble with annexing California is that we would also get the right wing bits. Don't forget, both Reagan and Nixon were Californicators.

[badasstronaut.livejournal.com]

Could you sift them out?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Ideally one would just take the Bay Area and leave the rest I think.

[nikkyb.livejournal.com]

... and what would we do with Arnie?

Early odds

[woundedtiger.livejournal.com]

Liberals winning next electon: 1-100.
Liberals staying in power until 2010: 4-5.
Liberals staying in power until 2020: 20-1.
Liberals staying in power until 2045: 1,000-1.

It's not the Conservatives they really have to be afraid of; it's the New Democrats. I can't see Layton as a serious threat to the Liberals, but it is likely that the NDP will be the only party other than the Liberals to have seats everywhere in Canada after the next election. If that is the case, they will become a viable opposition party. (But they have to get some seats in Quebec.)