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Originally Posted by Rerun
I think you are being overly optimistic about what effect this will have on the Liberals in the next election.
Your next potential leader, Bob Rae is involved up to his neck in this. As for you other potential leader, Iggy.... he apparently is beginning to see this deal as a poisoned chalice (as some on the national news put it), and he is backing off in his support (when was the last time you saw Iggy being interviewed on tv and showing his support?). The Liberals will wear this rag for a long time. Come the next election, all you will hear from the the Conservatives is how the Liberals made a backroom secret deal with the socialist NDP and the separtist Bloc to take over the goverment of Canada and this shows you can't trust them.
This deal will be very bad for the Liberals in the long run. They've really shot themselves in the foot.
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I actually really agree with this. Harper may have shot himself in the foot and caused this through election funding reform and right to strike mandates. However he gave himself a lot of ammunition for the next election, especially with the tape of the meeting with Layton, the withdraw of the contraversial parts of the update, and the unwillingness of the three opposition parties to work with him on the budget. Combine that with the Liberal's bumbling and fumbling and their economic status and the Liberal's should want no part of an election for a long time.