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Originally Posted by FanIn80
You know what pisses me off?
Instead of these unorganized parties deciding to just get organized and stop living off the public dollar, they decide to band together to overthrow a Government we just democratically elected a month ago! All so they can keep billing us for their BS campaigns that don't even accomplish anything.
I'm willing to bet that, if there was a referendum on this issue, it would be a landslide in favour of the Conservatives. Even my Liberal and NDP friends are completely in favour of this. We can't have a referendum, though, because POWER is more important than what's right for this country. You don't get POWER by letting people have a say. You have to gang up and take POWER if you want it.
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If this gets voted down, the government collapses and we have another election, it essentially will become a referendum on this issue.
Maybe I'm out of touch with the rest of the Canadian population (which is definitely possible), but it seems like it would be very easy for the Conservatives to spin this into a majority.
If I was planning the Cons' election message, it would be simply to point out that the first time the opposition parties have shown any backbone against the Conservative government is when their taxpayer funding is threatened. They want to keep bellying up to the trough and propping themselves up with taxpayer money.
Personally, I don't want my tax dollars going to any political party, whether I voted for it or not.
To me, the question is: If there is another election, less than six months after the previous one, is this issue going to cause a lot of people who voted Conservative last time to change their votes? Is it going to cause a lot of people who voted for someone other than the Conservatives to change their votes?
The Cons were very close to a majority last time, and I could see a lot of frustrated voters changing their votes towards them in anger against the opposition for forcing an election that no one wants, especially on such a self-serving issue.
But, like I said, maybe I'm out of touch and this is an issue that other people feel strongly enough about that they'd put the Libs back in power, whether they have a leader or not.