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Originally Posted by Jimmy Krack Korn
Agreed. They all look like buffoons in this debacle. I just wanted to gain a better understanding of how a cut of tax payer funding could get us to this point. I'm honestly quite shocked that the Liberals, NDP and Bloc would essentially be bankrupt if public funding was cut. Such a thing never occurred to me. Thanks to some answers from other posters, I now have a better understanding of the situation.
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The media sure likes to try and make it look like a public funding issue, but it was much more than that. As mentioned earlier, there was also the right-to-strike and removal of the pay equity program that had the opposition up in arms.
And the even bigger issue was how Harper was basically trying to use bully tactics to rule like he had a majority. What would it say about our democratic process if our
minority government was able to pass whatever they wanted because the opposition couldn't financially afford to oppose anything?
It was much more than just a public funding issue.