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Originally Posted by ikaris
On the flip side, I refuse to trust the Conservatives with a majority government. It really has to do with the Reform party more than anything. Looking back, how many different former Reform MPs can we see that have been quoted with racist remarks, or radical right wing social ideologies? Even recently, you hear the same garbage coming from a certain Calgary MP.
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Ok but you seem to be willing to forgive the Liberals and some of their outright racial and diversive comments, we don't hear any mention of that. Unless its true that for example crosses were burning in Kelowna that night, while the Jews were warning their friends not to go to work at the World Trade Center on 9/11, while telling the Americans that they hate them and stomping on a George Bush doll. C'mon be fair Ikaris, both parties have their share of outright nut jobs that have to be controlled by the masses. Don't paint one party as having a radical fringe element without doing the same to the others.
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Originally Posted by ikaris
A minority is good because they can be kept in check and you would assume that they would negotiate with other parties (as we've learned, they didn't in their first major confidence vote until after they were threatened with losing their power).
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One can hope, however I don't have a lot of faith that the opposition is going to work with the government. If the Conservatives have to extend that hand of cooperation, then the Liberals and NDP and Bloc have to do the same. However planning to topple the government two days after the election and not backing off on this coaltion after Harper backed off on points of his update tells me that the opposition has really never been willing to work with this government.