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Originally Posted by Slava
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!
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There's definitely an air of opportunism... but of course there's always the threat that if the CPC make gains, but no majority, and Dion is replaced by a capable, social moderate/fiscal conservative liberal with an ounce of charisma, it could all be for nothing, and another election would be forthcoming with less positive forecasts.
I'll probably vote conservative indefinitely, but now more than ever. Since Trudeau, I've had a general understanding that the Liberals, however slimy they may be and incongruent their views are with my own, would not entertain policy that would run the country into the ground or decimate any one region, regardless of which region. I can not say that about the Dion Liberals, and obviously the NDP and the Greens. A 4% drop in GDP is simply catastrophic, and anyone who proposes policy that willingly slices even a (liberally estimated minimum) 1% off economic output should be nowhere near government. Even Chretien and Martin would agree (off the record of course).
Harper is really betting it all that the blue liberals in BC, Quebec and Ontario feel the same way.