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Originally Posted by Slava
Just like Harper said he would never run a deficit under any circumstances, was going to reform the senate and end the patronage appointments? Lets not just paint one party as the one who goes back on promises here...
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I wasn't, I was responding back to the insinuation that the Conservatives were the only ones breaking promises.
With the deficit, I think you can agree that it would have been a lot less if Harper hadn't worked with the Liberals.
On Senate reform its been impossible for the Conservatives in a minority position to do it as the Liberals spent years stacking the senate and there's no way that they want to lose the ability to obstruct Conservative through the use of the Senate which they did fairly successfully on the crime bill last year.
As much as I would love to see patronage end, its never going to end its how the government works, and it is an effective way to shift power through non electorial means. All we can hope for . . . I can hope for is that one of those bad boys comes my way.
I'd be an awesome chief justice.