Last night I emailed someone who absolutely everyone here is familiar with as a former politician at the provincial level and asked more than a couple questions related to this farce.
One of the questions I asked was why the Bloc would agree to this without theoratically having any say in policy shaping, but would agree to never voting against any possible confidence motion.
The response was...
"with the Governor General being the figurehead for the Queen, there was no possibility she could recognize the coalition as a viable government with the seperatists having a say in policy making. ___________(persons name i have omitted for reasons but is a former NDP MP) is somewhat an expert on constitutionality as well as parliamentary procedure. He would know that she could use any Bloq involvement to form policy as a reason to disallow the coalition and would at the request of Mr. Harper then dissolve parliament and call an election imediately"
and a bunch of other stuff.
So in essence the reason the 3 headed monster did things the way they did, was to avoid a scenario that could have brought the house of cards around them come tumbling down before it ever had a foundation.
Believe this or not, does anyone now question that this was ANYTHING but a power-grab disguised as a lack of confidence in a government elected by the people 6 weeks ago and unable to ever present a budget that (apparently would of included some of the Liberal "wants") would likely have passed after much debate???
Im stunned. i shouldn't be, but I am.
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