With an attitude like that, it's no wonder that the Conservatives had only 9 percent of the popular vote in Quebec. It's very similar to rhetoric by the Liberals in regards to Alberta. Dismissing regionalist political movements and parties only lends strength to those movements--you would think that the Liberals and Conservatives would both have learned that by now. However, it doesn't change the fact that this was an extremely hypocritical thing for Harper to say, and the appearances of it are very bad. It's an attempt to draw attention away from the fact that the only reason that this bill is passing is because the conservatives got outsmarted on C-48. Does the budget bill lack legitimacy because Harper (or the brains behind him) were asleep at the wheel? The conservatives are a mess right now, plain and simple, and they better hope there's no election coming up any time soon, because they're likely to get destroyed.
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