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Originally Posted by peter12
Hahahaha, how am I wrong? That is exactly what I said. BTW, at that point,
Harper wanted an election. Martin was getting worked in the polls and the only reason the government survived any longer as because Martin and Layton got together and sold out the taxpayers for a few more months of power.
If you honestly think that Harper or the Conservatives ever thought they could work with the NDP for more than 30 seconds, than you need to stop posting in here.
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http://www.harrisdecima.com/en/downl...es/050426E.pdf
Please refer to the second page where it has national voting intention. Unfortunately, Decima does not go all the way back to September of 2004, but I can guarantee that Martin was around 44-46% in the polls at the time and wanted an election, but as of December 2-5 of the 2004, the numbers were as follows:
Liberals - 44%
Conservatives - 24%
NDP - 19%
Bloc - 11%
Those are majority numbers, especially when you look at the Ontario numbers underneath:
Liberals - 54%
Tories - 25%
NDP - 18%
Those numbers in Ontario are the type that give the Grits 85 to 90 seats at the time, and that along with a strong showing in Atlantic Canada, 25 seats or so in Quebec, which they would have picked up due to the fact they were at 30% at the time, and support in Vancouver, a bit in Winnipeg and 2-4 seats at the time in Saskatchewan would have been enough to give them a majority government.
That was the reason that Harper was desparately trying to avoid an election at the time, it was the reason why Martin ended up forging a coalition, because he knew that if his government fell the GG would be obliged to see if another coalition could be put in place. At the time Harper wanted a coalition, he was desparate to avoid an election and advised the GG as much. The circumstances right now are strikingly similar.