BREAKING NEWS !!
Liberal Party of Canada leader Stephane Dion says his party will not, we repeat will not, bring the government down over the throne speech.
In other late breaking news, those parts of the word experiencing a cloudy day had a better chance of rain than those places under cloudless skies.
Too funny, they don’t agree with the throne speech but Canadians don’t want an election – wonder where we heard that before – oh prompt – show time: A Message from the liberals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME6bSd2bKU0
There is an alternative – creating a coalition govt with the other opposition parties.
“There is an alternative – creating a coalition govt with the other opposition parties.”
I keep seeing this idea pop up – can someone provide me with an actual precedent? In Canada? In the UK, whose parliament ours is (roughly) based on? Maybe in Australia?
*crickets*
Please. This is a “First Past The Post” country. Coalition is not a term that co-exists with that concept.
The Liberals did not win the last election. Nor did the NDP or the Bloc. Suck it up already.
Alternatively, grow a pair and defeat the government and try to win the NEXT election.
Ask, and ye shall receive
Rare, but an option none the less
Your answer begs the real response to Candace’s question, which is: so what?
Harper pronounced an identical political situation “disfunctional” and “unworkable” before plunging us into an election. The fact that a particular solution hasn’t been tried invalidates that solution…how, exactly?