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Originally Posted by alltherage
All these elections are doing is stagnating the govt that is already in place. Give Harper one term as majority and if he can't get anything going then it's election time. This beigy grey crap of a government we've been force fed is just irritating.
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Well, here is the thing.... people in Ontario and in Quebec and many parts of BC DON'T WANT HARPER TO HAVE A MAJORITY. Hell, most of us don't want him to have a minority.
There will not be an election this summer. Ignatief (I'll learn how to spell his name when he become PM) knows better than to go to war with a flimsy 2% lead in the polls, their #1 issue being "let's hammer home that the deficit is too big therefore we need to spend more", and them just barely paying off their bills from the last election. We know this year is going to be a deficit. Next year is going to be a deficit. Next year the Liberals can bring out their charts showing that under Liberal government this country routinely had surpluses and Conservatives ran deficits (U.S. caused recessions be damned). If they had an election now there would be a lame-duck Liberal minority government. Wait 12 months and there is a shot of a Liberal majority or perhaps a Liberal-NDP coalition government (though that is less likely with Ignatief at the helm).