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Originally Posted by peter12

Completely not true. He approached them to topple the government in a non-confidence motion. That's all. Not to jury-rig a crazy coalition government with no elected leader.

The reason that I ask the question is, I always hear Dippers piss and moan about social situations, cuts to public funding etc.. but without a clear economic solution except... well government needs to do more or isn't doing enough.

I am curious as to how you think money goes in and out of the government's coffers and if you think things like overtaxation are justified.

Tories blink first in showdown

But opposition MPs are accusing the Prime Minister of hypocrisy, charging that Harper is overlooking his own efforts to forge a coalition to replace Paul Martin’s minority Liberal government in 2004.

Harper, then Conservative leader, even joined with NDP Leader Jack Layton and Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe to write then-governor general Adrienne Clarkson, urging her to look at "options" if Martin's government fell in the fall of 2004, mere months after it won a minority mandate on June 28.

"We respectfully point out that the opposition parties, who together constitute a majority in the House, have been in close consultation," read the Sept. 9, 2004, letter from the three leaders.

"We believe that, should a request for dissolution arise this should give you cause, as constitutional practice has determined, to consult the opposition leaders and consider all of your options before exercising your constitutional authority."

That message is in stark contrast to the one Harper delivered Friday night, when he charged that Liberals don't "have the right to take power without an election."

There are ways to make social programs work such as better universal health care, better funding for post secondary education (and therefore lower tuition fees), labour laws that mandate more and better benefits for workers. I am no expert but I know in Europe they make many of these programs work... so I think that if they can do it there, there should be a way to do it here without crazy taxation. I don't know it because I am not an economist but I am sure there must be a way.