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Originally Posted by ikaris
Are you serious? The coalition got together because of that. While I don't agree with it, they essentially don't trust the Conservatives anymore to try and govern like a minority should, and why should they? the first confidence vote that Cons do this? You reap what you sow.
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OK, assuming for a moment that we all believe that there was no talk of bringing down the gov't prior to this.... is this really the way to govern?
Why do we have a House of Commons, and have debates in there if at the first sign of disagreement the answer is to bring down the gov't?
The correct course of action is to debate this in the House, and have each of the opposition party leaders state that they and all of their party will vote against it. That sends Harper back to the drawing board to draft a bill that will be accepted by the House.
Maybe you do something like this if there is some major issue being proposed, like if they wanted to do away with CPP or something like that. But IMHO it is irresponsible to not debate this issue that represents less that 1/10 of a percent of the national budget.
And for me I see this level or irresponsibility, and that makes me afraid of what those irresponsible people will do once they are in power.