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Old 04-12-2011, 06:50 PM   #1422
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Originally Posted by SebC View Post
That letter to the GG is a signed a agreement between the opposition leaders stating they would like to be asked to form a government if the Liberals lost a confidence vote. Close enough, if you're willing to acknowledge what it is. It is not an agreegement to force an election. It explicitly deals with what could happen if a confidence vote were to be lost.
Where does it say that the opposition leaders would agree to form a coalition? Suppose the GG does as the letter requests. She asks the opposition leaders if they are willing to form a coalition government (well within confines of our democracy) and they say no (which seems likely since they never agreed to form a coalition government in the first place). That's it, that's all. You don't have a leg to stand on here. You want to claim that a letter asking the GG to consider her options is a smoking gun that points to Harper trying to form a coalition government and it isn't.
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