Happy Holidays to you and your family as well!

Chris

Congratulations on your transition; I know you’re going to have a great time and have lots of wonderful opportunities.

Also, I just wanted to congratulate you on publishing this blog posting. Honest, clear and well thought-out.

Merry Christmas and happy New Year,
Grant

But since you’re a Pepsi man…

I voted Progressive Conservative a couple of times in the past, but there is nothing “progressive” left in the leadership of the Conservatives. The rest of the time, it has been Liberal or NDP. I flirted with Green 2 elections ago (because, like you, I was PO’d at the Liberals for the sponsorship scandal), but eventually realized I don’t believe in Green as a party, but rather a party platform position.

Many years ago, I was an ardent NDP supporter, but as I grew up, I realized I didn’t believe completely in the orange pill and was really more of a balanced, centrist supporter. I became a Chretien supporter when he said no to Iraq, and I became a Martin supporter for his fiscal balance (actually, throughout history, Liberals have demonstrated fiscal responsibility far more often than any Conservative-type of government…). Meanwhile, the NDP caters to the unions. I support unions, but only so far…

So… I am OK with openly stating I already voted in the advance poll, and I already voted for Stephen Chase, the local Liberal candidate.

I agree with you about tomorrow, it will be a late night!

I find myself in an odd position this time… I’m a Liberal at heart, but I just don’t feel any connection whatsoever with Ignatieff. I listen to him speak and I find myself daydreaming of virtually anything. And it’s not that he’s not an intelligent man or that what he says is something that I necessarily disagree with. But I just don’t get a warm fuzzy feeling when he speaks. OK, I don’t get ANY feeling when he speaks.

Then there’s Jack.. good ole Jack… While not perfect, I LISTEN to him and hear what he’s saying.

I have to admit, I am one of those Liberals who was furious a few years ago and voted Conservative because I wanted to see every single one of the Liberals kicked out onto the street. So I guess that I have to bear some of the responsibility for Harper being where he is now. (Although that was the one and only time that I voted Conservative… at least in the Federal election… I had a similar turn in the last provincial one for the same reason) I’m getting off track, but my point is that I agree with you 100% about Liberal supporters not feeling like enough has been down in the party to convince us that they’re not the same ones we threw out of power a few years ago.

So honestly… I’m still undecided. There’s no question that my vote is going to the left… but where it ends up, I guess I’ll make my final decision tomorrow.

One thing I have to wonder seriously… if Peter MacKay had won the Conservative leadership battle years ago, would I think differently? I find MacKay sounds more like what I would want my Conservative government to sound like. Yes, I’m a Liberal, but I’m not totally against the Conservative platform in general… I’m absolutely dead set against the Stephen Harper Conservative agenda… so I have to wonder had Peter MacKay been running the show, would I give the Liberals a little more time to sort their mess out.

One thing is for certain… in my mind… all the parties need to shake up their leadership… (Jack might be exempt from this)

Should be interesting tomorrow!

When I first saw your tweet, I thought “This has to be a joke.. it can’t possibly work”… and then I read your post, and I thought.. “Hmm… maybe…” And the more I’ve thought about it since that first read, I think that I’m inclined to agree! I’ve never lived in a “big city” before, so it never really occurred to me how they do it there… but you’re right.. it does seem a little excessive to have 3.. and driving an hour is not a big deal.. Will we ever see it happen?

While Sussex was the talked about spot in those days, it doesn’t really make sense today due to the new routing of highways. There is no direct route from Fredericton to Sussex on a major highway any longer. A better spot would be near the junction of Route 1 and 2 at River Glade or some point north of Sussex on a new north-south route connection the two major highways.