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The NDP, Liberals and Bloc "working together" amounts to a coup. This is because
a) there was a written agreement
b) it was six weeks after an election
c) some polls showed Canadians didn't like the idea.
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d). Said opposition campaigned on NOT forming a coalition with the seperatists just 6 weeks earlier.
Kind of an important omission dont you think?
And "some polls"? Seriously...the majority of Canadians didnt want it...clear as a bell and i would love to hear the spin saying otherwise.
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The Tories and the Bloc or NDP "working together" is a good idea. This is because
a) this part confuses me. Something to do with "usurping power," which is a term that as I understand it has no applicability in a democracy.
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yes...working WITH the elected government is a very good idea, no question about it. Working to topple them in a an effort to usurp power from them is a bad idea. Again, legally they were well within their rights to do so. It niether made it the right thing to do, not the moral thing to do when you consider all the country had just gone through. ( IE; election 6 weeks earlier.) Yet they all tried to do just that because they thought they knew better than the Canadian people. the arrogance was astounding to me.
Are you really going to keep suggesting the two things are in ANY way similar?
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If anything, that means it's incumbent on Harper to work with the opposition in order to keep his government in office. He may finally be realizing that--which is a good thing
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Agreed....for the betterment of everyone.
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I just think it's a little hypocritical for him to pretend that last fall was anything untoward when
a) he had made a similar (if informal) agreement with the Bloc when he was in opposition and
b) he shows willingness to work with "socialists and separatists" if it's to his own benefit
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Of course you do.
thing is...that agreement was never signed, paraded to the citizens of canada in a charade that TOLD them this is what they wanted, nor did it ever even come close to happening.
right now though...again as you so vehemently pointed out in December, that minority governments HAVE to work with the opposition, he is doing just that and is being called hypocritical for it.
its laughable at this point IMO. He has support for the ways and means bill that is a good one for Canadians...and the Liberals are crying foul because its not them supporting it.