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Originally Posted by opendoor
Do you think the Conservatives are all that different in that regard? In the 2007 Federal Budget, the Conservative minority earmarked $2.3 billion in extra spending for Quebec in order to strengthen their position in the province and gain the support of the Bloc in the budget vote. And it worked, the NDP and Liberals voted against the budget and the the Bloc, with their $2.3 billion bribe, voted for it.
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Far different, the Conservatives were in government at the time and it had to go through the house, it didn't give the Bloc power over the budget or policy, and it wasn't put in place as a back room agreement pursuant to toppling the government.
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