- Yet another Harper Con on the People

Submitted: 7:24am, PDT, 29 Mar.'11 Winnipeg Free Press
Harper doesn't want to talk about contempt, prefers coalition chatter, Jennifer Ditchburn, The Canadian Press, Winnipeg Free Press, 03/28/2011
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/families-to-get-income-splitting-tax-cut-once-federal-budget-balanced-harper-118780604.html

Harper is also being very two-faced on the coalition issue.

"[Harper] lied this morning."
said Duceppe, 26 Mar.'11, discussing Harper current description of the events in '04

Tom Flanagan, who was working for Harper's at the time, explains that "Harper was exploring whether there was 'common ground for the Conservatives to undertake a minority government.'" (NP, 28 Mar.'11)

Not whether it was democratic or legitimate, but whether the opposition parties would support him on it.

Flanagan: “I actually don’t agree with [Harper] on that point." on whether a minority government can — in certain circumstances — be formed by a second-place party. (NP, 28 Mar.'11)


Harper letter to GG in '04:
"'We believe that, should a request for dissolution arise, this should give you cause, as constitutional practice has determined, to consult the opposition leaders and consider all of your options before exercising your constitutional authority.'"

Mike Duffy said on CTV on Oct. 5, 2004.
"'It is possible that you could change prime minister without having an election,'”

Harper in '04
"I would not want the prime minister to think that he could simply fail in the House of Commons as a route to another general election, that's not the way our system works.".

Harper is also being very two-faced on the coalition issue.

If Harper has the right to govern simply because he has more seats than other parties, and nowhere near a majority of Canadians

And,

if Harper is so adverse to holding an election because as he claims it will disrupt the "fragile recovery" of our economy.

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but, "Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach says he doesn't believe the economy is being put into jeopardy because a federal election is looming. " CTV, 25 Mar.'11
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/QPeriod/20110325/stelmach-election-economy-110325/


"'I don't think an election campaign per se is negative for the economy,' Douglas Porter, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets said.
. . .
In fact, Statistics Canada's analysis of changes in employment in the wake of the October 2008 election campaign, suggests an election would create thousands of temporary jobs." Ottawa Citizen, 25 Mar.'11
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/Budget+defeat+election+hurt+economy
+analysts/4500769/story.html
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Then how is it that a vote of non-confidence by Parliament lead to an election.


In the words of Richard Nixon, I mean Stephen Harper "Let me be perfectly clear"

It is the party that has the confidence of Parliament that governs.

You'd think that Harper would take care to cooperate with the other parties and not be in so much contempt of Parliament in order to maintain the confidence of Parliament

But Harper is the master strategist - hummm

could it be that Harper in reality wants an election and manipulated things in order to try to shift the blame on the Opposition - in other words just one more con on the people.

The solution is that the Moderate Majority consolidate and send Harper back from whence he came, under whatever system of determining a government.

Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.html