This says it all. The real winner if this coalition goes through? Gilles Duceppe and the BQ. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain. And the thought of a guy like Dion working with Duceppe seems unbelievably weird.
Duceppe is ONLY going to abide by this coalition agreement until he feels that he can gain more seats in a federal election. This whole "agreement for 18 months" crap? Not going to happen.
Furthermore, can anyone see Ignatieff working with Layton?
Of course, help us all should Rae with the Liberal leadership.
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In the last few months, we have come to learn that the Bloc is getting votes from people not yet born at its creation, sustained financially entirely by the generosity of Canadian taxpayers, and now they will be sitting on the government side of the House. Add in his weekend run for the PQ leadership and Gilles Duceppe has officially run out of sharks to jump.
I think the scenario advocated by your separatist buddy (I remember your earlier post!) is the best case scenario: they simply take this opportunity to engage in some shabby money grubbing. The worst case scenario is they wait for an issue/manufacture an issue where they can dramatically split from the coalition in order to re-ignite the separatist powder keg.
These last few posts kinda feel like annoyance over the Cons getting out-politicked... yes?
I honestly don't think it has anything to do with being out-politiked. If Harper goes down, so be it.
I'm offended that we could have a PM Dion after he was just rejected in epic fashion. It's not right, and it's not democratic.
I'm offended that the other 3 political parties are so against the political party financing law - a law that ONLY hurts political parties (and hurts the Conservatives more than anything), and that they find this issue so important that they are willing to take down the government over it...but were unwilling to take down the government over 3 budgets, Afghanistan, etc. etc. etc.
All those issues? Minor when it comes to the Libs/NDP. But touch their party financing, and it's a national crisis.
All of which is taking the focus off the REAL national crisis, which is just ridiculous when you think about it.
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