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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Canadians didn't have the balls to give the Conservatives a majority budget. We can't sit on our asses and get upset at them for not sticking to their guns, when we elected a minority-led Parliament that makes it 100% impossible for them to do so.
We elected a minority Government, and now we're getting a minority budget.
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Yeah, for better or worse our current system of having a half arsed winning government who has to try to appeal to everyone more or less results in this type of thing where the budget is middle ground.
On one hand maybe it's good because it reigns in one party from trying to run rampent with their agenda. But on the other hand it doesn't allow them to always make the hard descisions that governments sometimes have to make.
I do wonder though if our system of electing a government forced a winner like it does in the US if more people would get out and vote because if the Conservatives win 51% of the vote...well they won the election and they get 4 years to govern. Maybe that would shake some of the voter apathy in this country.