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Originally Posted by C_Rush
the Liberals are basically bankrupt right now, which is why they're up in arms about the bill to end public financing of parties. They're headed for their 2nd leadership battle in as many years because Dion was unelectable and lost a significant number of seats under his leadership. That's shambles if you ask me.
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And that's probably why Harper thought they could get what they tried through.. The Liberals are wounded and wouldn't risk another election which they couldn't afford to fight.
Harper probably figured this was win-win.. gets through, kicks the other parties when they're down. Doesn't get through, go back to the polls with a Liberal party that can't even match the last election they ran, they only need 10 more seats to get a majority.
Maybe he thought he could get another election without having to get his hands dirty?