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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
But a lib minority would absolutely require a bloc support to survive.
A Conservative minority can defeat a combined Lib/NDP vote which means that the Lib/NDP would require the bloc to govern.
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The Cons can't pass legislation just by having more votes than the Lib/NDP if the Lib/NDP were voting against them. They'd need the Bloc just as much as the Lib/NDP would if the Cons were voting agasint them. (Assuming Con minority.) So when the Cons say that they're not in bed with the Bloc, but the Libs/NDP would be, in way what they're saying is that they're less willing than the Libs/NDP to support the government in order to shut out the Bloc.
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Originally Posted by transplant99
yes...and compromise is a 2 way street. Why wont the Liberals compromise and support CPC bills? Why is it just the CPC that is required to do this when more canadians voted for them than any other party?
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Why the heck do you think Ignatieff was absent from parliament so much? It's because the Liberals were abstaining to let the Cons pass legislation.