dino_bobba_renno dino_bobba_renno:
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Who will lead this so called "coalition"? Dion is pretty much out as leader mainly because he has all ready announced his intent to step aside. Duceppe, I don't think I even need to elaborate on that. May, Duceppe would be a better pick than her and I think most people will agree with me on that. Which leaves Layton, the Liberals will never allow Layton to be the leader.
Harper has the opposition by the short and curlies and he knows it. What might happen here though is that the left will come to an arrangement to have a agreement in place that if something like this happens again then the frame work would be in place to allow for a quick alliance after the Liberal leadership race. I can't see it happening at this particular time though.
In the event of a coalition I don't think Dion is completely out of the picture. Layton certainly isn't. I may not support the NDP over their fiscal policies but I'll certainly support a coalition led by him even if the Libs hold the most seats.
You seem to be thinking that a coalition will automatically be one made up of the current parties with current seats. That won't be the case should we go to an election. In that event I hope for my aforementioned Lib-NDP-Green coalition. That will leave the Bloc out in the cold completely and give the voters in Canada a true voice in a left vs right debate. Rather then forming the coalition after the fact I think telling the voters they will form one before the votes are cast will allow people to decide for themselves whether they want to support such a notion.
Harper most certainly doesn't have the opposition by the short and curlies. He had every possible advantage to win a majority last election but didn't and he didn't for a very good reason. He's blustering and bluffing and already backed down over his confidence motion/party funding threat because he knows that a coalition is a real threat.
Hell, if the Libs and NDP are smart they can even win without forming a colaition using the same scenario I detailed whereby each party simply doesn't run candidates in ridings the other might have won had the vote not been split. Under that scenario the Libs form a minority govt and the NDP gains more seats and a Liberal party very willing to accomodate NDP ideas for support.
The other alternative is a dysfunctional pariliment and another election in less then a year making Canada the laughing stock of the democratic world. All of this because Harper won't act like a leader and govern accorrding to his mandate.
CKA Elite 
