2012 NDP leadership convention

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Well, this is interesting: It seems Nathan Cullen is making himself the "cooperation" or "non-compete deals" candidate. 
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/cullen-proposes-running-joint-ndp-liberal-green-candidates-in-next-election-132071883.html

He seems determined to distinguish himself from Pat Martin though.  Martin will now probably either get behind him, or enter the race proposing an all-out merger. 

Why are these people so interested in this idea.

Because they assume that FPTP is holding back a "progressive majority". It's not, and they'll be surprised at how many Liberals would choose Tory over NDP. As the formation of the CPC showed, just adding two parties together doesn't mean a majority...

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Fixing IRV would probably guarantee no conservative governments in Canada for a long time.

No, it wouldn't.

Any form of PR on the otherhand...

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Geez. It's not often that I can understand every single word of a paragraph in French. That can't be good for Paul, can it?

If it wasn't for his lack of French, Paul would be a great candidate. I'm tempted to keep him in my #2 spot.

2 words here, that I didn't know.

I know 16-year olds with better French. In the UK. Seriously.

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So would you say Conservatives would get a majority with only 35% of the vote again? What if Rae and Muclair cooperate and let the liberals run in the suburbs and NDP run in the cities?

They'd probably be some vague references to tactical voting from the leaders. Atleast, that's what's happened here in the past.

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While we're somewhat talking about it, 34/30/30 PC/NDP/Lib in Ontario according to Forum. 38% of Ontarians want an elections called now.

Hudak still the leader? Does he still make Dalton look good, by comparison?