[Newsbot]

Title: Lawyers square off over 2008 election call
Category: Political
Posted By: WDHIII
Date: 2009-09-08 08:18:02
Canadian

[bootlegga]

The only thing absurd is that people thought Harper was any different from all the other politicans in Ottawa.

[herbie]

accomplishment #44: Made a mockery of own Fixed Election Date Law

[kenmore]

bootlegga bootlegga:

The only thing absurd is that people thought Harper was any different from all the other politicans in Ottawa.

True, very true

[leewgrant]

$1:

Co-ordinator Duff Conacher said outside court that Harper either broke the law or his 2006 campaign promise to ban snap elections at a prime minister's partisan whim.

If he broke a campaign promise that's a political, not a legal issue.

$1:

If Democracy Watch wins, Conacher said his group will consider a class-action effort to recoup the $350 million taxpayers spent on the last vote.

From whom? The taxpayers?

From the Tory Party? Rots of Ruck.