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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 just thought that he had bullied the opposition all through the previous session, and he saw a time when Dion was a lame duck, the Liberals didn't have any money, there had just been an election that had been called early and it would be political suicide to force another election, no one would do anything that would appear to be "joining" with the BQ, and he would attach these measures on what was being called a response to the economic crisis.
He thought it would be almost impossible for the opposition to be able to coordinate and attempt to trigger an election no one wanted, let alone form a coalition.
He was wrong. No one is saying he is an idiot, he just misread this situation.