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Originally Posted by Rerun
but he was left with no other choice by the opposition parties who had become impossible to work with.
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You recall the events surrounding that with vastly different results then I. The opposition parties at the time were making no overtures about defeating the government nor were there any additional filibusters or other parliamentary/legislative delay tactics (at least not on the part of the opposition parties... I do recall the conservatives pulling shannanagons (deliberately not showing up for things so as to have a lack of quorum for example) and in fact had a handbook distributed to their members instructing them on various ways of obstructing business.
Harper broke his own his own fixed election legislation it's as simple as that... and in the process proved to me that despite all the right-wing whining about having fixed election date they (neither the parliamentarians nor it's supporters) actually really cared about it in the first place. Just another conveniently displaced faux-principle.
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From our favorite writer, Andrew Coyne.
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In a roundabout way the relative of a Trudeau (in genetics if not in name).