2011 Canadian Election Thread

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by MarchHare

All four parties have asked the AG to make a special exception and release the report, though.

I don't believe that that can even happen without parliamentary approval.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I think the mistake in that was the demand to release the final report. They came across as not understanding that the AG final report cannot be released until parliament is sitting no matter what the Prime Minister says.

It was grandstanding at its purest.

Now if the Liberals are smart they will start 'innuendos' and 'suggesting' whats really in there.

"Conservatives authorized $10million for strip clubs 300kms away from the summit"

[MarchHare]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I don't believe that that can even happen without parliamentary approval.

You're right, but it's not just one party that's making the demand, it's all of them.

[metallicat]

Could they not have done something about the god damned echo in that room? The audio was terrible.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by MarchHare

You're right, but it's not just one party that's making the demand, it's all of them.

I think that's irrelevant though.

without a government in session, there can be no oversight on the release.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by oilers_fan

Could they not have done something about the god damned echo in that room? The audio was terrible.

Well when you hold a debate in my dads rec room you're going to get bad sound.

[SebC]

Originally Posted by Ark2

Don't know. Maybe that's just part of protocol?

That would explain why there's a similar letter every time there's a minority government then. Oh wait... there isn't.

Originally Posted by Ark2

If it only makes sense that it was a coalition, then they would have signed an agreement stating their intentions to form such a government, just as Layton and Dion did two years ago. We are going in circles here, but there is no proof.

Can't see the puck in the net, but it sure as heck isn't anywhere else. We don't need Obama's birth certificate to know he's an American and we don't need a letter that says "coalition" to know what the "close consultation" between Harper, Layton and Duceppe was about... especially when two of the three are willing to tell us exactly what it was about.

I'll note that Harper just denies it was a coalition (because he thinks the parper trail isn't strong enough), but won't tell us what else it could have been. There's no evidence whatsoever to show that it isn't a coalition. (Therefore, by your logic, it is not not a coalition.) All the evidence other than Harper's word points towards a coalition.

[zamler]

The translator on the ctv.ca feed sure has an odd "style".

[CaptainCrunch]

I wish to murder this translator.

[Saint Troy]

My favorite part was when Ignatieff mentioned meeting a Winnipeg gangbanger teetering on the precipice of leaving high school for the thug life.

[MarchHare]

I'll note that Harper just denies it was a coalition (because he thinks the parper trail isn't strong enough), but won't tell us what else it could have been.

Exactly. If it wasn't a planned coalition, then what was it? The letter asked the Governor General to "consider all options" if Martin's Liberals lost the confidence of the House. There are only two possible options in that case: dissolve parliament and call an election OR ask the other parties to form a functioning government that has the confidence of the House.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Saint Troy

My favorite part was when Ignatieff mentioned meeting a Winnipeg gangbanger teetering on the precipice of leaving high school for the thug life.

Sounds like Chretien's story about having coffee with a homeless man every morning.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Sounds like Chretien's story about having coffee with a homeless man every morning.

Chretien is the man! Did he give him the shawinigan hand shake?

[zamler]

Gilles Duceppe has really gone off the rails, I have absolutely no idea what he is talking about anymore.

[Ark2]

Originally Posted by SebC

That would explain why there's a similar letter every time there's a minority government then. Oh wait... there isn't.

Can't see the puck in the net, but it sure as heck isn't anywhere else. We don't need Obama's birth certificate to know he's an American and we don't need a letter that says "coalition" to know what the "close consultation" between Harper, Layton and Duceppe was about... especially when two of the three are willing to tell us exactly what it was about.

lol

even those two couldn't agree on what happened. Layton says he stormed out of that hotel room because he wasn't ready to make Harper the Prime Minister, Duceppe says that wasn't the case. Believe what you want I guess, but citing anything those two buffoons say as any sort of factual evidence is laughable.

[SeoulFire]

Originally Posted by MarchHare

Duceppe did very well if you take into account his intended audience. He doesn't care what we here in Alberta think of him; I bet he scores very highly in Quebec for his performance.

None of them do.

[burn_this_city]

Duceppe with the come onnnnn...

[SebC]

Originally Posted by Ark2

Believe what you want I guess, but citing anything those two buffoons says as any sort of factual evidence is laughable.

I'll take two buffoons, a letter, and a little bit of reading between the lines over one buffoon.

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by SebC

I'll take two buffoons, a letter, and a little bit of reading between the lines over one buffoon.

At the end of the day the proof is in the results.

[MarchHare]

Ark2: if Harper wasn't planning a coalition in 2004, then what exactly did he mean when he asked the GG to consider all the options if the Liberals lost a confidence vote?