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Originally Posted by chowdachad
How so, the coalition wasn't voted into power by the people of Canada so why is it there right to bully their way in?
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Essentially because the Conservatives have only been given a minority mandate and by refusing to modify this budget to obtain support from an opposition party, they are not representing what they've been given the power to do.
It's been beaten to death in this thread as to if a coalition actually represents the voters. I am of the belief that it does it is represents the largest total number of votes. Others obviously disagree. The reasons either way can be found looking back at other posts.
As I said, this posturing essentially forces the Conservatives to negotiate, and we can all move forward. I think that we all come out better once this is all over because now the Conservatives will be more inclusive as they know now that there is at least some sort of back bone from the opposition which was not displayed during the last cycle.
I could not possible imagine a scenario where the Conservatives would refuse to budge.