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Originally Posted by opendoor
Wrong election. This was the 2000 election when the Chretien Liberals won a majority with 172 seats. Before the election, there were informal negotiations between representatives of the three parties, including Joe Clark's chief of staff, to form a coalition that would see Stockwell Day as PM. A draft agreement was written up and a two page throne speech outline was created.
No, there was never a formal agreement that was signed by the three leaders, but there was no reason to continue the talks once the election results came in and the whole idea was moot. The fact remains, the two parties that form the current Conservative Party of Canada were open to the idea of forming a coalition in which the Bloc held the balance of power if it meant unseating the Liberals.
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I think you may be just a touch confused. I figured I would touch on both of the instances together. The letter about trying to work together happened in 2004, with Martin in charge. Nothing to do with Cretien. Harper was in charge at the time. There was never anything that involved Day being in charge. The earlier alliance/conservative/bloc alliance never even went through party leadership. Because it never got that far. Just one guy thinking. So no, there was not a plan for the two parties that form the conservative party now to deal with the bloc.