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Originally Posted by John Doe
Yes they do have to do what parliament wants, or they lose confidence of parliament. What part of that do you not understand? They lost confidence of parliament. They are as much to blame for the election as anyone else. The compromises they made in the budget were window dressing just so that they could claim that they made compromises without doing anything meaningful.
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The Conservatives have to govern not act in servative to the opposition parties. And they did make consessions to the budget that were real and specific to the NDP suggestions. I would argue that Layton was the poison pen as he asked for some pretty unrealistic spending points that the government didn't put into the budget.
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Originally Posted by John Doe
The NDP, BQ, and Liberals have all made concessions to make parliament work. If they hadn't, we would have had an election 3 years ago, as we have a minority government.
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What consessions have those parties made beyond window dressing. If the Conservatives are responsible for the atmosphere in Parliment then you also have to equally look at the opposition parties as well.
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As an aside, do you seriously condone what the Conservatives have done? What possible motive can they have for withholding costs of programs, proroguing parliament or disrupting committees that is for the benefit of Canada? I see the benefit to Conservatives, but if the Liberals, NDP or BQ tried to do any of these things you would be screaming about it.
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Since the NDP or Bloc have never been in power its mute.
But remember that Jean Chretien proroqued parliment, canceled opposition days, sh$t canned committees investigating corruption and hid program costs as well so lets not act like this is a Conservative invention.