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Originally posted by FlamesAddiction@May 13 2005, 03:48 PM
I'm starting to have some serious reservations about Harper.
First, he complains about Liberals wasting money, and then he goes and purposely obstructs parliament 3 days in a row. That is basically the political equivalent of a temper tantrum. His party seems more interested in obstructing than working. He wants to force an election and waste $300 million dollars instead of trying to make things work.
Second, he is making handshake deals with a Quebec separtist. This one worries me quite a bit. Here is a guy who could very well be the next Prime Minister of the country, and he is forming a political alliance with a person whose goal is to dismantle the country. Their politics share very little common ground - one is a right conservative, and the other is a left socialist. You can bet your bottom dollar that Duceppe isn't helping Harper right now out of the goodness of his heart. It really makes me wonder what Duceppe will gain from Harper if the conservatives win the next election.
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First, that $300 million is going to be spent anyway. Either today, or in November (well, assuming Martin keeps his promise, but we all know that wont happen as he has proven more adept at breaking promises than Chretien was). So that is a non issue.
As for shutting down parliament, does it really matter? Everything they could possibly discuss today will be wiped out when the government falls next week. Certantly it is childish on all sides, but that is politics.
As for working with Duceppe, I don't get the devil from Quebec argument. So long as Quebec remains a Canadian province, the BQ are their representatives in parliament. In this case, the two parties have a common cause. I really find working with the Bloq to bring down the Liberals to be far less reprehensible than the NDP working with a corrupt party outright demanding billions of dollors be wasted for that support.
That said, Harper will definitely have a difficult time of it as a minority Prime Minister, as we all know Duceppe will stab Harper in the back the first time it is beneficial to him. I would suspect that the Bloq would work with a minority CPC government so long as Harper would hold true to shrinking federal government, especially it's interference, and giving more powers to the provinces. Quite frankly, that benefits the entire nation, not just Quebec.
The most unfortunate part of this entire fiasco is that Ontario is going to force the continuation of an unstable government, as there will not be a majority government coming out of this. I only hope that it is a Conservative minority, and that Harper can prove to Ontario that the CPC is not the evil boogeymen that the liberal dominated media makes them out to be in that time.