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Originally Posted by MarchHare
This is exactly right. This move has nothing to do with "scary Conservative boogeymen", but rather it's all about shoring up the Liberals' left flank against the NDP. When the Conservative backbenchers tried to re-open the abortion debate last year, four Liberal MPs supported the motion. Only the NDP was unanimous in their opposition (because they already have a policy to ensure that anti-abortion candidates cannot run under their banner), so this pre-emptively shuts down a potential line of attack in the next election and prevents the NDP from claiming that they -- and they alone -- are the only party that is staunchly pro-choice.
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Yeah, I think a lot of the stuff that Trudeau has done that has Cons whining about the hidden agenda thing is more targeted at the NDP than the Conservatives. I honestly think the Liberals are perfectly happy to sit back and watch Harper self-destruct between now and 2015, rather than add fuel to the flaming wreckage.