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Originally Posted by ikaris
So you put no blame on Harper for putting a completely partisan footnote on a mini-budget intending to bankrupt the opposition? Essentially trying to govern like a majority in a minority mandate?
I just can't see how you don't recognize how this all could have been avoided.
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Some blame sure but not a biggest chunk of it IMO. It wasn't something that was going to vote then and there. It was an update meant to lay out their intentions. Something they are asked to do by the House. From that point on it is time to massage the plan to get House support. The government removed the so called offending clauses as part of that massaging. You don't destroy the government over something like that. And if you do, you darn well better have all your t's crossed and i's dotted on what you would do differently and how you would do that but as is coming out today they didn't do that. They have a Stimulus package they can't given any real details about because it has no details. It may as well not even exist.
But of course they was all in the workings for 2/3 of the coalition BEFORE that update even came about.
I think this gets uglier and uglier for the coalition over the next few days as the media thinks this is stupid. The populace thinks this is stupid. And because of that anything that can be interpreted in terms of a power grab is going to be broadcast and written everywhere. Today we have two examples already: May possibly getting a senate seat and a stimulus plan that doesn't really actually exist. As a result I think you start to the cracks appear in both the NDP and Liberal ranks. They may not be public cracks or public comments but some party may forget to show up to vote.