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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
I think Harper was effective in letting their actions speak for themselves:
The Libs paint Harper as disrespecting democracy and poisoning parliament. Yet Harper has led the longest lasting and most successful minority government in Canadian history. It's really hard to square those two statements.
Ignatieff paints Harper as passing off serious democratic debate as simply 'bickering', Yet Canadians clearly do not want nor understand why we are having an election. As much as the Libs try and make the bogus contempt of parliament charges stick, most people agree it just looks like more political opportunism to have an election than anything else.
I believe that the voters punished the Tories last election for the clear political angle when nobody wanted an election, and this time the Opposition will be punished for the exact same reason.
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How has this minority parliament been the most successful in Canadian history?
Of course the politicians from all sides are engaged in political opportunism...its also known to them as "doing their jobs". Harper engages in political opportunism all the time....like when he helped to ensure that this election would take place and he could gun for his majority. Thats politics.