[Newsbot]

Title: Harper sees 'Conservative or Liberal' minority
Category: Political
Posted By: WDHIII
Date: 2008-10-13 10:46:23
Canadian

[kenmore]

well lets all pray tonight that its a liberal govt.. had enough of that tool..

[Zipperfish]

At least a tool is useful. As opposed to Dion.

[Reverend Blair]

If Dion's not useful, Zip, then Harper is like like a level that's a half-bubble out...worse than nothing at all.

[Wally_Sconce]

kenmore kenmore:

well lets all pray tonight that its a liberal govt.. had enough of that tool..

the election is tomorow, not tonight

[Reverend Blair]

Well, if you pray...and I really don't understand why anybody would...it would make sense to do so before the election.

[tritium]

You got to be kidding. Either way the Conservatives lose, Harper had confidence that calling an election he would get a majority or at least gain a few seats. Yeah right...

[Reverend Blair]

Yup. Unless Harper gets a majority government, he wasted $100 million dollars on what amounts to a cheap, partisan stunt. Taxpayers' money.

[hwacker]

Reverend Blair Reverend Blair:

Yup. Unless Harper gets a majority government, he wasted $100 million dollars on what amounts to a cheap, partisan stunt. Taxpayers' money.

Yep and that just leads to less arts funding. win win for everybody

[RUEZ]

Reverend Blair Reverend Blair:

Yup. Unless Harper gets a majority government, he wasted $100 million dollars on what amounts to a cheap, partisan stunt. Taxpayers' money.

Why is this a waste? If they win that gives him a second mandate to govern. Clearly he is the most popular of the three leaders. If he wins again more people in Canada want a Conservative government then any other party. Would you have called it a waste if the Liberals had brought down the government when they could have?

[Reverend Blair]

A mandate to do what? He has no platform, and therefore no mandate.

If he wins again, somewhere around 2/3's of Canadian voters will have voted against him.

If he tries straight bully tactics as he did before, the opposition may make a case for a coalition government. If they are able to compromise, they arguably have more of a mandate than Harper does.

[RUEZ]

Reverend Blair Reverend Blair:

A mandate to do what? He has no platform, and therefore no mandate.

If he wins again, somewhere around 2/3's of Canadian voters will have voted against him.

If he tries straight bully tactics as he did before, the opposition may make a case for a coalition government. If they are able to compromise, they arguably have more of a mandate than Harper does.

Not at all. Just because all parties hate Harper doesn't mean they are even close in policies. In fact the NDP actually had some good ones. What did you say when the Liberals were running under a minorty government in 2004? That 2/3 voted against the Liberals?

[Reverend Blair]

Yeah, I did say that. The thing is that the Liberals were, for a time, able to work with the NDP. The Conservatives screamed like insane bunnies when that happened, but that is the way minority governments are supposed to work.

When the Liberals quit cooperating, they lost NDP support.

Now who are the Conservatives going to work with? They've spent the last 2-1/2 years calling everybody names. They've done their best to disrupt parliament at every step. So who is going to work with them? The Liberals, who are closest to them? Not likely. The NDP? Probably not. The Bloc? Not for long.

So how can they claim to have a mandate? They can't.

[hwacker]

Reverend Blair Reverend Blair:

Yeah, I did say that. The thing is that the Liberals were, for a time, able to work with the NDP. The Conservatives screamed like insane bunnies when that happened, but that is the way minority governments are supposed to work.

When the Liberals quit cooperating, they lost NDP support.

Now who are the Conservatives going to work with? They've spent the last 2-1/2 years calling everybody names. They've done their best to disrupt parliament at every step. So who is going to work with them? The Liberals, who are closest to them? Not likely. The NDP? Probably not. The Bloc? Not for long.

So how can they claim to have a mandate? They can't.

If they don't show up to vote it's call a majority