Smasharoo wrote:
still boring
Bloc Quebeqois used to make it somewhat interesting, but yes, incredibly boring now.
Nah the Reform Party was where it was at simply the best at political controversy. The dusted the Bloc, other than separation the Blocs Policies were actually pretty good and very centrist. There wasn't much in the way of policy that ever was an issue with other parties (namely PC and Liberal), again aside from separation.
But if you want some good political Drama, the Reform Party takes the cake. God those were good times. Every other week Preston Manning was furrowing his brow out of mystical wonder at how some of these people got on his parties ticket. From Steve Harper attempting to rally a bloc against Reform support of gays in 1994, to Bob Ringma stating that it should be ok to hide gays and minorities "in the back" of shops. Other awesome times full of extremist opinions based in the strong facts of personal opinion...even a personal meltdown and subsequent leave from politics by Steve Harper in the later 90's when he claimed that the Reform party was becoming to Moderate and that if he wanted to be a Progressive Conservative he would be one. But the ride didn't stop, the rebrand to the Canadian Alliance brought with it Stockwell Day (AWESOME! Time), and saw the departure of the moderates to the PC party. What was left was some of Canada's most elite bigots with such strong moral opinions as "rape is the womens fault" and "the gays can't be teachers because they will just teach gay ****". Then out of the shadows Steve Harper returned to the Reformists riding a pure white moose in a red knit sweater with a maple leaf emblazoned upon its chest.
Where he succeeded in winning the leadership of the *wink* Conservative Party *wink* and put a hush on all of his backbench members, because its better to have people think you are stupid than to open your mouth and prove it.
I mean the Bloc was good...But damn those Reformist/CA years saw some pretty fantastic volumes of stupid being broadcast around our nation.