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Originally Posted by longsuffering
I think that saying the budget would be different if it wasn't for the coalition is a cop-out.
Either Harper and his Party believe in the Budget they presented or they don't.
If they don't - as you suggest - then maintaining power is more important to Harper than his principles. If Harper and his team do not believe in this budget they should not have presented it. And if they had presented a budget that all Opposition parties rejected forcing an election, then he should be principled enough to go to the voters and campaign on his beliefs.
I'm of the opinion that Harper and Conservatives presented a Budget they support 100%.
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Interesting...
Look no further than Jack Layton, as a shining example of someone who won't sacrifice his own "principles" for the sake of giving Canadians what they actually asked for (instead of what they didn't).
I don't get it... If the PCs didn't present a budget with a stimulus package, they would have lost the House and non-PC supporters would have blamed them for it... But, present the stimulus and keep the House, and non-PC supporters are still up in arms.
Personally, I think we'd all save each other a lot of typing every time a new issue comes up, by just saying, "I like Harper" or "Harper sucks." I mean, at the end of the day, once you boil down the 400 word posts, this is all anybody's really saying anyway.
Edit: Also, remember that the Opposition rejecting the budget would not have triggered an election. It would have simply just given the usurpers a chance to form the new Government. This, of course, being something that the overwhelming (there have been scientific polls to prove this) majority of Canadians would not have wanted.