According to La Presse, 76% of Quebecers support this coallition. They also report that Conservative support in the province has fall 7 points since the election, putting them at 15%, well behind the Bloc and the Liberals and tied with the NDP. Those that think that another election will result in a Conservative majority are quite mistaken.
Just because the Conservatives have put up the white flag does not mean that the coalition will not go ahead. The budget update simply proved that the Conservatives have no desire to work with the other parties and only wish to antagonize them. One pundit I was listening to this morning said that it just isn't in Mr. Harper to cooperate with others and from what I've seen that is true... he had absolutely no intention of reaching across the aisle. If the three opposition parties back down now, they will just be forced to do this again three, six, eight weeks from now when the Conservatives again throw in some omnibus bill containing things none of the opposition parties can agree to.
As for this "scary" NDP.... you guys sound like the Republicans "scared" of Obama. "He's gonna cause massive unemployment"; "He's a Marxist"; "The country is ruined". Get a grip. As for my economics background, I am 2 credits shy of my BComm Business Admin. including several economics credits (I never finished the BComm since my BSc. landed me a good job). Perhaps discussion on economics should be limited to those with full BComm's in Economics, but I think that would be a rather small subsection of the forum population.
BTW - "Dippers" is meant as an insult... it is used in a condescending insulting form in Canadian political blogs, forums and general conversation. It's a spawn off the racial epithet... see the urban dictionary. But since that sorta thing is welcomed here, I think we should all start calling those right of centre the "Cons" in the same manner.
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