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Originally Posted by peter12
You do know what a government surplus is... right? Overtaxation. So we should be happy that the Conservative government gave us enough money BACK so that they now have to struggle with balancing the books instead of manufacturing surpluses through taxation. That's how a government makes its money.
They've only been constrained by the stupid attitude in Canada that it is not okay to roll back the size of our massive government. They should continue cutting the fat off of our already bloated government programs.
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Agreed... governments should not be carrying around massive yearly surpluses. Nor should the average Canadian be happy with the administrative morass that taxpayer dollars fund.
I think its important to note the extreme differences in the three leftist parties. Banding together would only help the NDP, and thats because they have nothing to lose. Many Liberals would rather jump off the CN Tower than to get in bed with Separatists, let alone spendthrift socialists. The Bloc would be screwed. How can they seriously be defending the will of Federalist Quebec when they get in bed with the two most Nationalistic Parties in Canada? The Bloc may lean left, but their core ideology of provincial autonomy is only shared with the CPC. They become irrelevant and pave the way for the federalists to start voting conservative like they used to.
It would be comical in a way if the three stooges tried to do it, ignoring the fact that government stability would be nice in poor economic times. That government would fall within a month and be swiftly replaced by a CPC majority, powered by both shocked and betrayed blue and moderate liberals as well as federalists in Quebec who would feel betrayed by the Bloc.
As for the previous comment that the Liberal-NDP-Bloc "King Ghidorah" government would represent most Canadians... that is laughable. The Liberals would have to kowtow so much, their policy would be unrecognizable and undesirable to the typical moderate Liberal. The only people that monster might represent are some leftist separatist sociology students at Laval.