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Originally Posted by Rerun
This was definitely a miscalculation on Harpers part.... but then again they don't call politics a BLOOD SPORT for nothing.
I wonder if he knew about the Layton/Duceppe agreement when he did this? If he did, it was a HUGE miscalculation because he basically forced the Liberals to take part in a coup plan that was ready to be implemented.
I truly believe that if there hadn't been an existing plan/agreement between the NDP and the Separtists, Harpers plan would have succeeded. The Liberals (Dion) wouldn't have had a clue on what to do about it and would have sat on their hands as usual.
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Absolutely, I agree that the timing was lousy (for trying to nix vote subsidies). Then again, the PCs did campaign on "change" and "cleaning up the Government" when they won the first election two years ago.
The mistake they made was trying to pass this without a majority Government. It could be seen as them "trying to act like a majority" or maybe they just thought the Liberals and Socialists would agree that, in times like this, that money was needed elsewhere.
It certainly wasn't anything worth tearing down a newly elected Government over, though.