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Originally Posted by malcolmk14
Does anyone really think Stephen Harper, about as meticulously calculating as you can get in politics, hasn't carefully planned all of this out?
I'll stick to my position that Harper saw this coming, knew exactly how it would play out, and took the lowest-risk possible route to destroying the Liberals and getting his way.
Call him self-serving, call him an ideologe, but you certainly can't call him an idiot.
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I think Harper called the election when he did because he probably figured that because of having a recent election that the Liberals would not be prepared to vote against him in a confidence matter, and he really wanted to sneak in his no-strike and anti-pay equity measures before the new year so that he could work that into the new budget.
He miscalculated big time and hopefully realizes that a minority government CAN'T rule like a majority ever. It was very sneaky and underhanded, but in a more subtle way than the Liberal and NDP were by trying to form a coalition.