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Originally Posted by Thunderball
Good question. I figured if he wanted an election, he would have tabled something the opposition would freak out about, like the Gun Registry... or more ominous, something environment related. My guess is its optics. By throwing his hands up and saying the government doesn't work anymore, it gives the opposition less ammunition than by giving them something to shoot down and defend their collapsing of government as protecting Canada from Stephen Harper's "evil hidden agenda." This way he can say he got a lot of what he wanted done, but the opposition made it difficult to do much else.
The downside are the people who point at the election timing law, even though they aren't applicable to a minority, the negative optics are there.
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I don't really disagree with you. I think that most people realise that the government was actually working just fine though...and this was just the bset time for Harper to have an election to push for the majority that he needs to keep his job as leader.
Lets face it...I'm not voting for the guy under any circumstance, so no matter when he goes to the polls he wasn't going to convince me anyway!