- Canadians, also, have a lot to gain by an election - Getting rid of Harper and the Con's.

Submitted to: "Ignatieff has nothing to lose if the writ drops, And neither do we, so bring it on"
By Randall Denley, The Ottawa CitizenSeptember 13, 2009
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Ignatieff+nothing+lose+writ+drops/1989118/story.html#Comments


If Harper co-operated and worked with the Opposition parties there would be no election right now. Whether there is an election or not is not up to the Liberals. Nor is it up to the NDP or Block. It is up to Harper.

Unfortunately, Harper right from the start has taken the “in-your-face”, “my-way-or-the-highway”, “no-compromise” approach. He and the Cons have deliberately obstructed Parliament, including the Parliamentary Committees, to the point of being dysfunctional for their own partizan purposes and to the harm of all Canadians. He also uses it as a smoke screen for implementing on a slow but steady and insidious fashion his right wing extremist ideology through the Administrative side of the government. For example, apparently one of the worst things a Liberal government could do as far as Harper and his core of Con's is concerned is appoint left-wing ideologues to the judiciary. Well, given the sentiment, you can well imagine what ideology Harper is looking for in his appointees.

Harper and his Con's have shamelessly disrupted Parliament to the point of being dysfunctional then used this to justify his calling an election against his own legislation last fall as well as suspending Parliament. His approach is so extreme and so uncompromising that the only way to get Harper to compromise and do the right things is to threaten him with loss of power, i.e. real possibility of a non-confidence vote.

Part of the Harper strategy is to incite his core supporters with accusations, quite false, of the Liberals intending to undermine our democratic process to form a government if Harper doesn't get a majority. Harper fails to mention, of course, that he joined up with the NDP and Block, that's right, the same socialists and separatists, in an attempt to "overthrough" the Martin government in '04. Harper also fails to mention that it is precisely the same Parliamentary system that gave him power in the first place despite having 2/3rds of Canadians vote against him. One-third of the population supporting Harper does not represent the will of the people. In a minority the will of the people is compromise, work together. Harper refuses, even to the point of forcing an election.