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Originally Posted by SebC
A few things:
- If the Liberals allow a government in comptempt of parliament to continue to govern with impunity, doesn't that make them less of "a strong capable opposition"?
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I guess that boils down to my thoughts that contempt charges are a massive load of crap (relatively speaking), but to each their own. Good behaviour, no, but sure as hell not worthy of the contempt hammer for the first time in history.
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Originally Posted by SebC
- If you're going to attack Harper for the negative things he's doing, isn't the best timing for that when those negative things are recent?
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Again, this comes back to, IMO, contempt and an election being massively overkill for these negative things. There's no guarantees of a conservative minority, but it sure looks like we'll just end up back where we were, so what the hell is the point?
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Originally Posted by SebC
- Replacing Ignatief now with some mystery leader in order to hold an election in two years doesn't make any sense to me. If you replace Ignatief with "a prospect", Harper likely calls or engineers an election to go up against said "prospect" and dominates. Either that, or the Liberals hands are tied for the next two years as they groom their new leader, making for inneffective opposition and undermining the whole thing. Ignatief would be the Liberal leader for the next election whether it's going to be May 2, 2011 or May 2, 2013. The guy hasn't even been the party leader for an election yet, so it's a bit early to be pulling the plug on him, at least until a credible alternative emerges.
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The party is going no where with him at the helm and the back room powers that be know this. He'll be turfed in very short order if he doesn't win.
I just can't get my head around what the hell the point of all this is...