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Well if I take your example it's just parroting the word in almost everyone of your posts over the course of this thread.
But:A sudden appropriation of leadership or power.
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Oy vay.
OK...IF 15 individuals decide to sit as independants...what part of that is a "sudden appropriation of power"? And what power is it they are appropriating?
Now...if they cross the floor and sit as Conservatives, then yes you have half an argument. Its a tactic I too implicitly hate as part of Parliamentary procedure, but alas it is completely legal though I beleive immoral.
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As you can see nowhere in that description is it contigent upon getting into bed with anyone. Getting into bed with people isn't what makes something a coup
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Yes it is...as evidenced by what we have seen the last 5 days. Selling out your basic principles and going back against what was campaigned against just 7 weeks ago to garner power of a country is, at least in my opinion, getting into bed with someone.
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I think some people have suggesed that what was proposed isn't in the spirit of democracy, but illegal?
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Nobody has...but if they did it has been said repeatedly in this thread and the other one that it is not illegal. repugnant, not in the spirit of democracy, abhorrent? yes...illegal? No.
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My point is that if suddenly there's a reversal of fortune for the Harper government, somethign that was specifically voted for by the populace, I wonder if there will be the same outrage about it.
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Name me one single person in the country of Canada that voted for a Bloc/Lib/NDP coalition. One.
In fact...you just beat your own argument...Harper was the one voted as PM, as we all know.
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But there's specifically been a lot of outrage about that here. That what was voted for isn't going to happen so would the converse be true?
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The outrage by Conservatives, Liberals, and NDP supporters, on this very board no less, is that none of them voted for the Libs and NDP to get into bed with seperatists in an effort to usurp power from the democratically elected Conservatives who were given a mandate from the country to run it. Period. End of story.
What part of this are you not getting?