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Originally Posted by transplant99
What a load of hooey. Of course he had a choice and lets not make any mistake about it either. This reads like a paid speechwriter right out of the Liberal/NDP caucus.
There WERE concessions specifically laid out for the NDP. So he didn't get all of them, and somehow that makes the Cons unwilling to work with other parties?? Sure thing.
It's funny that when I read from the left that the right is unwilling to compromise to keep things moving, I never hear how it is that they (Libs/NDP) are doing their share of this compromising and we just saw the result of it on Friday. Last I understood it, compromise comes from multiple people involved not just one. Could the PC's have done more? Sure they could have, but they had no obligation to do it either. They are, afterall, the sitting government.
No one has ever been a perfect Pm nor has there ever been a perfect government, and there never will be. That doesn't mean that those who make decisions that you or I disagree with aren't doing their jobs though. If the NDP or the Liberals didnt want an election, they should have voted differently as was their choice. Spinning it anyway else....THAT'S disingenuous.
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It really doesn't matter. the budget isn't why there is an election. Harper was found in contempt of parliament. That is no small thing. Its one thing to play politics and put spin on things. Contempt of parliament is none of those things though. Its hindering parliament in doing their business, or obscuring parliament so that it cannot function.
In other words the budget is what it is. Boring, stay the course with little handouts for all kinds of demographics. The government was brought down though because they were either deliberately misleading parliament or committees, refusing to testify at committees, etc. These are important things. Frankly whether a volunteer firefighter somewhere gets a cheque from the government is totally meaningless. Making parliament so that it can't work though, when you are claiming to be the rightful governing party is ridiculous. How CPC supporters can somehow breeze past that point makes me shake my head.