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The opposition would do everything in their power to gum up the works of government.
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Obstruction of government committees, you say? That sounds like a page right out of Harper's playbook. Oh wait, it is! In 2007 the CPC literally wrote a handbook to explain to their MPs how to obstruct committees and prevent the government from functioning.
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Last year, the governing Conservatives prepared a secret handbook on how to disrupt parliamentary committees and create chaos. No mere pamphlet, the book ran to 200 pages.
It instructed committee chairmen to select blatantly biased witnesses and tutor them in advance. It gave the chairmen pointers on how to obstruct parliamentary business, to storm out of meetings if necessary.
Team Harper never expected its opus to be made public. But the media got hold and the headlines poured forth – “Tories blasted for handbook on paralyzing Parliament” and the like.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...icle704164.ece