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Originally Posted by transplant99
Dion was rejected by more than 2/3
Layton was rejected by more than Dion.
Duceppe was rejected by more than Layton.
See how that works both ways?
Yes...he is. he garnered more support than any other leader to represent Canadians as PM...and dont give the the "canadians dont vote for the PM" nonsense...because if that was true, there would never be debates on who should lead a party to begin with. Yet somehow that often becomes a bigger story than elections themselves.
Fine...then tomorrow i expect the ways and means bill to be defeated...dont you? And if he does get that vote through, you agree that he has the confidence of the house and should govern as such....yes?
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The NDP and Liberals combined for 44.44% of the vote, compared to Harper's 37.63%. Again, my point is that no party leader has the right to govern unless they have the confidence of the House. Harper lost that confidence when he tried to pass that partisan budget update after he got elected, he only had the right to keep power after pro-rogueing parliament because he got the support of the House when Ignatieff put him on 'probation'. If Liberals had let Dion follow through and lead until the May convention, and he had continued with the coalition plan, then Dion would have had the right to govern, and not Harper. Why? Because Dion had the confidence of the House.
This is the Canadian system.
And yes, obviously Harper has the confidence of the House today. Ignatieff made sure of that until now, and the Bloc is making sure of that at least for now. Since Harper has the confidence secured by the Bloc and possibly the NDP, he has the right to govern... otherwise he would not and we would have another election.