^ JOM I think that the point here is if you live by the sword, you die by the sword. When Harper won in 2006 it was on accountability as a major plank. He campaigned and won on the premise that the Liberals had lied and broken too many promises. If you run that campaign and then a week later start luring people across the floor, appointing people to the senate so that they can fill cabinet posts and then going flat-out against a policy you campaigned on (which also costs many retired people millions and millions of dollars) you run the same risk as the party you ousted.
The thing is with the income trust debacle, it had to be done. That being said it could've been done on a smaller scale and prevented the major losses for the average joe while still protecting the governments income.
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