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Originally Posted by Nehkara
The general opinion is that the Conservatives are not addressing the economic situation faced by the country and the opposition parties believe that action must be taken to avert further economic crisis and the Conservatives appeared wholly unwilling to do such a thing.
Added to that, the Conservatives did their best to irritate the opposition parties with the massive funding cuts to political parties (when the opposition parties were in bad shape financially) and a ban on allowing federal civil servants to strike.
That's what I know of the situation.
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1. It's been 6 weeks since the election. Canadians elected the PCs because they were NOT going to jump at shadows and come up with knee-jerk bandaid solutions. We elected them because we wanted our Government to take it's time and make proper, educated decisions. Harper has been doing exactly what he campaigned on and what he WON on. He's been meeting with the G20 and top financial advisers, and he's already stated that the next budget (in January) will have ALL of the recommendations of the G20 as well as recommendations from the top financial advisers.
2. It was not a "massive" subsidy cut. It was a $30 million dollar cut to campaign subsidies that wouldn't have even affected anyone for 4 more years. That was plenty of time for the Liberals, Separatists and Socialists to get their parties in order and start rounding up campaign funds.
The reason this is happening, is because Layton has never ever even come close to getting the power he's spent his entire life chasing. He started brokering this deal with the Separatists immediately after the last election ended. This has been the plan all along: if he can't electively win power, then he's going to take it! It had to be done now, though, because they couldn't risk Harper actually presenting a budget that actually works.
The subsidy thing only gave Layton the trigger he needed to pull the Liberals on side. The only way they would go all the way on this, is if the Liberals got the PM. The only way the Separatists would stay on side, is if that Liberal PM wasn't Dion.
So... Ignatief gets to be PM, Layton gets to be Deputy PM and the Separatists get whatever they hell the ask for until this coup dissolves from its own internal infighting and we get another election.