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Originally Posted by FanIn80
No it isn't. Not even close.
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How isn't it? If Harper didn't try to bankrupt the other parties with a blatant partisan provision in the mini-budget, do you really think this would have happened?
The Liberals would have likely supported the mini-budget without that provision and this we wouldn't be having this discussion. The Conservatives attempted to bankrupt their opposition and the plan failed miserably as the opposition is uniting. It doesn't matter anymore to the opposition that the Conservatives removed the provision.
For political reasons now, the Liberals can't back off until the Conservatives promise some sort of stimulus, or at least a plan for stimulus based on certain conditions. Otherwise they'd be seen to be just money hungry (which they clearly are, as all politicians are).
Realistically any government with any sort of NDP fiscal influence is a scary proposition, and many Liberals are probably very skeptical of this whole scenario. It will be up to the Conservatives to decide how this will all play out. I doubt that any Liberals would actually cross over to join the Conservatives (or at least not enough to cause a majority).
If the Conservatives just directly work with the Liberals, they could eliminate the fringe groups. Considering this is a budget and fiscally the Liberals and Conservatives are pretty close, this shouldn't be hard to do. Our minority government needs to compromise.