Roy Ho’s Blog

Liberals had a pretty bad loss on September 17’s Quebec by-elections. 

http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/257805

People speculated the future of Dion at that time, just like people said Dion was to be a transitional figure.  After all, all the mighty and powerful Liberals did not want the job, McKenna, John Manley and Ralph Goodale did not the job.  And if we were to have a federal election, some say it would not be too favourable to the Liberals. 

If a leadership were held, Dion would have been on a tight rope.  Preparing a leadership race would require money, exposure to different parts of the country’s members.

So, here comes an announcement I just came across:

http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2007/10/04/some-choice/

Ralph Goodale, former Liberal Finance Minister during the Martin days, will be coming to Ontario to do a fundraiser.  Why would he be interested at fundraising in a place so far away from his base? If he is fundraising for just some candidate, any candidate, why would he be fundraising for someone so far away from his riding.  Why wouldn’t he be fundraising for someone else back home?

Why is increasing his exposure to different parts of Liberal members in the country?

Is he having an ambition too large for the prarire to contain?

He is obviously expecting a federal election. And if the election were not favourable to the Liberals, will this exposure be a political asset to him?

hm…

Chinese Debate against Amy Go (ED of Yee Hong, NDP) on 2007.10.04.

Part 1 (starts at 27:00): MMP係乜?
www.torontofirstradio.com/archive.asp?filename=ampart12-10-4-2007.asf

Part 2: YES派 vs NO派 空中激辯 (I)
www.torontofirstradio.com/archive.asp?filename=ampart13-10-4-2007.asf

Part 3: YES派 vs NO派 空中激辯 (II)
www.torontofirstradio.com/archive.asp?filename=ampart14-10-4-2007.asf

Part 4: 聽眾各抒己見 + 齊猜Roy Ho的提問
www.torontofirstfadio.com/archive.asp?filename=ampart15-10-4-2007.asf

In the debate, I posed a question with a secret prize.

Question:

Among all the jurisdictions that are employing MMP, which one is the closest to Hong Kong?

Answer:

Taiwan

Secret Prize:

Become a party member. I will pay your party dues, choose your own party. This is to encourage more people to become party members.

2 people answered the question correctly.  Simon Li will choose the winner of the two and provide contact information to me.

Why Macau is not the correct answer?

Macau has functional groups in the parliament.  One needs to meet the qualification in order to vote. Not everyone is eligible to vote. In MMP, everyone is eligible. And everyone is eligible in Taiwan’s system. Macau is not letting these functional groups to have a list. It’s one group, one seat.  Taiwan’s system is letting the parties have a list for each party.

2007.10.04, I debated against Amy Go on MMP (Mixed Member Proportional) on radio 1540. It lasted 90 minutes. Below are the radio interview audio files:

Part 1 :
www.torontofirstradio.com/archive.asp?filename=ampart1-9-29-2007.asf

Part 2:
www.torontofirstradio.com/archive.asp?filename=ampart2-9-29-2007.asf

Part 3:
www.torontofirstradio.com/archive.asp?filename=ampart3-9-29-2007.asf

Part 4:
www.torontofirstradio.com/archive.asp?filename=ampart4-9-29-2007.asf

Part 5:
www.torontofirstradio.com/archive.asp?filename=ampart5-9-29-2007.asf