Be careful what you wish for.

I found this today on Youtube from the recent Guelph all-candidates debates. It shows Liberal candidate Frank Valeriote giving an answer to what a candidate would do if in a hypothetical situation his/her leader called and said their particular party no longer existed, what party would they support?

The person who left this at Youtube - an obvious Conservative supporter, and with a name that makes me guess pretty well who it is - used it to assert that Frank was openly advocating the unification of the political left in Canada, and that if that was the case, he didn’t see the reason why there should be a Liberal Party of Canada anymore.

My take on it is a tad different. In my view Frank was saying in his own words, “Hey, here’s Frank, he’s going to make Parliament work for a change..He will do what voters have been asking minorities to do for some time. Co-operate with other parties”.

Even if ‘ChristianTory08′ - the person who posted this video and opined he didn’t see the need for a Liberal Party anymore, was correct in his interpretation that this was Frank calling for unification of the political left in that hypothetical scenario, he should think a bit harder next time before he types his desire for that to happen, and for the Liberals to disappear.

Politically unifying the Left in Canada means 64-70% or more of the vote for that unified party. The Conservatives would be crushed and left as a rump party from Alberta and pockets of rural Canada if that scenario were to occur. Be careful what you wish for, as they say.