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Canada's Minority Government FOKUS AMERIKA B ü r o W a s h i n g t o n Dr. Almut Wieland-Karimi th 1023 15 S treet NW, # 801 Washington, DC 20005 USA Tel.: +1 202 408 5444 Fax: +1 20 2 408 5537 fesdc@fes dc.org www.fesdc.org Nr. 2 / 2007 Canada’s Minority Government – Yet another Election? By Alex Münter1 • Canadian federal politics is currently dominated by pre-election positioning as parliamentary stalemate over the environment, social policy and anti-terror policies creates increasingly acrimonious political debate. With no party able to muster a clear majority in Parliament, Canada could well face its third election in as many years. • Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper has scheduled this year’s federal budget just one week before the March 26 Québec provincial election. The timing of the budget, in concert with a Québec election, is an unusual and audacious move designed to help secure a federalist victory in Québec and boost the Conservative party’s flagging fortunes in that key province. • The House of Commons must adopt the government’s budget or an election automatically takes place, so the budget will likely be an election-oriented spending plan. Mr. Harper is expected to increase federal funding to the provinces (most particularly Québec), boost military spending, battle climate change, pay down debt and cut middle-class taxes. • Mr. Harper has changed course on the issue of the environment. Not a Conservative priority during his first year in office, Mr. Harper has recognized the salience of the issue to the Canadian electorate. He has appointed a new Environment Minister – one of the government’s strongest performers and most competent ministers, John Baird. • The Prime Minister has strongly supported Canada’s participation in the war in Afghanistan, involving about 2,500 Canadian troops. He decided last year to extend Canada’s role there until February 2009. Two-thirds of Canadians believe that Canada is shouldering too much of the burden in Afghanistan and that NATO allies are doing too little. A country characterized for decades by strong vative government that is outnumbered 3:2 by the majority governments, Canada will soon mark the opposition parties in the House of Commons. Be- third anniversary of unstable parliaments, go- cause of a British-style first-past-the-post vernments unable to implement their agendas electoral system and no tradition of governing and political parties in perpetual campaign mode. coalitions, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government must secure the support of at least On the Road to New Elections? one of the three opposition parties in order to pass legislation and stay in office. This is typically The January 2006 federal election replaced a done on an issue-by-issue basis but an increa- shaky Liberal minority government with a Conser- FOKUS AMERIKA 2 / 2007 singly adversarial and confrontational tone in carves out a large enough swath of public opinion Parliament is making such co-operation difficult. to be able to prevail. Given the proliferation of political parties, winning 40% to 42% of the total As a result, Ottawa is currently gripped by a near- votes cast would likely secure a majority in permanent frenzy of election speculation. All Parliament. Through the month of February, political parties are presently nominating election weekly opinion polls by Decima Research Inc. candidates, preparing their platforms and even gave the Conservatives an average level of running election-style television advertising. The support of 33%, compared to 30% for the instability of the minority government has domi- Liberals. However, the trend line is positive for nated national media coverage, reducing the the Conservatives and negative for the Liberals. room for policy discussions. Even policy questions are largely analyzed by the national Mr. Harper insists he has no desire for another news media on the basis of their impact on the election. Nor does it seem to be in the interest of fragile political environment, rather than their any of the parliamentary opposition parties: substance. 1- After an impressive start last December, However, public opinion polls suggest that newly-elected Liberal leader Stéphane Dion – another election today could result in a who handled contentious issues like the continuation of parliamentary stalemate. There is environment, bilingualism and Québec indepen- also the possibility of an even-more fragmented dence as a federal cabinet minister – has so far House of Commons through the potential arrival failed to catch the imagination of the electorate. A there of a fifth political formation, the surging former academic, Mr. Dion has pledged to Green Party which is currently drawing the present a national platform built on the three support of well over one in ten voters, according pillars of economic prosperity, environmental to most public opinion polls. sustainability and social justice. He has also accused Mr. Harper of pursuing a neoconser- Interestingly, Conservative Prime Minister vative, George-Bush-style agenda that is out of Stephen Harper has continued to build personal step with Canadian values. credibility as the strongest federal leader. However, his party generally scores worse in 2- The third party in Canada (though fourth- opinion surveys than it performed at the polls in ranked party in seats in the House of Commons) January 2006. Thus the Conservative Party has is the left-of-centre New Democratic Party (NDP), increasingly sought to make an issue of under the leadership of Jack Layton. It has most leadership and character, hoping it can frame the recently used its clout in the minority Parliament next election around each party leader’s personal to push the government towards stronger action qualities. on the climate change crisis. While Mr. Layton frequently outperforms the other party leaders, it Mr. Harper has made clear his over-riding goal is is often difficult for the NDP to succeed in making to secure a majority of seats in Parliament in the its voice heard with only 29 of 308 seats in next federal election. A shrewd and partisan Parliament and no plausible prospect of forming tactician, Mr. Harper has pursued issues the next government. To complicate matters, a designed to split the opposition parties and is surging Green Party threatens to siphon votes positioning his government to try to win the 30 from all the other parties but draws the most from extra Parliamentary seats it needs to form a the NDP. majority. 3- The pro-sovereignty Bloc Québécois works co- Party Perspectives on an Election operatively with the provincial Parti Québécois, which is currently fighting a difficult provincial An election will be triggered if the government election campaign in Québec. While the Bloc is loses the confidence of the House of Commons, an avowedly separatist political party, its value meaning all three opposition parties must agree proposition to federal voters in Québec is slightly to defeat the government and force an election. different: it promises to defend the interests of Alternately, the Conservatives could engineer Québeckers in the federal Parliament, fighting for their own defeat over an issue which a better deal for Québec while making clear that differentiates them from all other parties and its sovereignist goals will only be achieved in 2 FOKUS AMERIKA 2 / 2007 Québec, not in the federal capital. Thus many government, devolution and more provincial Québec voters who are not in favour of Québec power. He has readily agreed with the premiers’ independence nevertheless back the party assessment. because it fights for their province in Ottawa. The timing of the federal budget in concert with a Already holding an overwhelming majority of Québec provincial election is an audacious move, parliamentary seats in rural areas and in Western which Mr. Harper hopes will both help secure a Canada, the Conservatives can only form a federalist victory in the provincial election while majority government by making electoral gains in boosting his own party’s fortunes in that province. urban Ontario, where they hold almost no seats, and in the province of Québec, where they Acknowledging the Climate Change currently hold just 10 of 75 seats. Mr. Harper has also changed course on the issue In his first year in office, Mr. Harper’s policy of the environment. Not at all a Conservative positions often placed him well outside the priority during his first year in office, Mr. Harper Québec consensus. Québeckers overwhelmingly has recognized the salience of the issue to the oppose Canada’s military involvement in Canadian electorate. The clear worldwide Afghanistan; Mr. Harper extended the mission. consensus over global-warming – underscored Québeckers strongly back the Kyoto protocol; Mr. by an unseasonably warm start to the usually- Harper derides it. Québeckers are overwhelm- frigid Canadian winter plus the success of ingly secular and liberal on social issues; Mr. environmental activists – has vaulted the Harper unsuccessfully tried to re-open the issue environmental agenda to the top of public of same-sex marriage in Parliament. consciousness. Many recent polls rate it is as the number one priority for voters. But Mr. Harper has been engaged in a charm offensive to seduce Québec voters since the fall. Mr. Harper is clearly trying to blur the distinctions He started with a parliamentary resolution, which between political parties on this issue. While it is was remarkably adopted almost unanimously, unlikely that Canadians will come to see the which recognizes the Québécois people as a Conservatives as a “green” party, it is imperative “nation” within Canada. A long-standing demand for his political fortunes that the Conservatives no of the Québec political class, it remains to be longer be perceived as “brown”. To this end, he seen how this new recognition of Québec’s appointed a new Environment Minister in January specificity will play out in public policy.
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