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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Go ahead. You remember it the way you want to if it makes you feel better.
These are the indisputable facts:
1. Harper's government passed a fixed election date law in 2007, setting the date for the next election for October 19, 2009.
2. The opposition parties did not defeat Harper's government with a non-confidence motion.
3. Harper asked the Governor General to dissolve Parliament, ignoring his own fixed election date law.
You can pull a Calgaryborn and continuing arguing even though the facts do not support your position, or you can admit that you were previously mistaken (perhaps you forgot about the events of 2008, nobody would hold it against you) and acknowledge that Harper did indeed ignore his own law but you consider it to be a minor issue. Maybe you even think Harper was justified to do what he did, but that doesn't change the facts of the situation.
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I didn't forget about the 2008 election. I thought we were referring to the last election. But now that you have clarified this, I do agree with you.
Technically he did break his own law but he was left with no other choice by the opposition parties who had become impossible to work with. Harper's reason (and a valid one in my opinion) was that parliament had become untenable and was at a stalemate where the government could not proceed in the proper governing of the country.