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Originally Posted by spotthefan
Politiking at its finest. What alternative would their be? Harper and his team are masters of language and it's uses.
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What other alternatives? Seriously? Politics is a game. By the opposition parties even hinting that they might form a coalition and overthrow the Liberals, it gives them leverage which in turn leads to the Liberals making concessions in their policy making. Do you honestly think that Harper would have been able to convince his party that a joint government with the NDP would work? The two parties are diametrically opposed. There's no way he could have sold the newly formed CPC to join with a socialist party. Even more, do you think that Harper would have been stupid enough to form a coalition with the Bloc? That's political suicide.
No, there's no way that either the Conservatives would have agreed to enter into such a joint party. There was way too much to lose. Hinting at a coalition was simply the opposition parties' way of putting the heat on the Liberals and it worked.