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Originally Posted by Blaster86
There was nothing deceitful about it. They were very openly saying that they could form a coalition government. But lets play your game.
Is it okay to compare this "deceitful" deal with election tampering?
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really eh?
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Former federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has launched a searing broadside against his predecessor, Stephane Dion, for trying to take power in 2008 with an “illegitimate” coalition, saying it looked like the work of “a desperate leader” who clung to power through a “coup de theatre.”
“It came as a thunderclap, especially to me. Although I was the party’s deputy leader, I had been excluded from the secret negotiations with the other parties.” Referring to Dion, he writes, “What I saw was a desperate leader clinging to power by any means, resorting to a coup de theatre to survive.”
“The problem was not a coalition itself. You can make coalitions among winners.”
“In our case, it was a coalition of losers. The government had just increased it seats in the House of Commons, while we had lost seats. How were we to explain to the people that we were throwing out a government duly re-elected two months before?”
About Dion, he said his predecessor “burst” the coalition plan on to the Liberal caucus, and that it landed like a “bombshell” with Canadians.
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Sounds somewhat deceitful to me when I read that.
The other thing is IIRC, both Dion and Layton said before the election they would not form a coalition with each other and certainly not with the BQ...but I ay not remember that entirely correctly.