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Originally Posted by opendoor
I don't really get this rhetoric of "jumping in bed" with the Bloc. The only guarantees that the Bloc have given the Liberal-NDP coalition is that they'll support two budgets and one throne speech. Obviously in return for that there will be some perks for Quebec. However, anytime there's a minority government the ruling party has to "jump in bed" with other parties. Martin's Liberals did it with the NDP to pass a budget and Harper's Conservatives did it with the Bloc in 2007.
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Usually other parties don't actually require (no other options) the support of another specific party. Usually there are options. This time there aren't. Every single confidence motion that goes through the house MUST be agreed to by the bloc. Which in the end means that they will get a say. Things will be run by them before they are proposed. And the bloc will get to decide which direction this government goes in. Yes parties have needed support from others before. But they have never been required to join with TWO other parties whose support they cannot lose. Gives those parties a little more power IMO. But I guess we'll see.