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Fife reported earlier Monday that the cabinet formed under the coalition would include both Liberal and NDP ministers. The Liberals would take 18 cabinet seats, while the NDP would get six.
Fife also reported that the coalition government would introduce a $30-billion economic stimulus package and roll back $50 billion in planned corporate tax cuts.
This is looking better and better all the time. Its a Lib-NDP minority coalition govt proped up by the Bloc. Thats no different then any minority govt being proped up by support of another party. Its exactly how minority govts work and identical to the one Harper proposed back when (The hypocrites forget they would have supported them doing it to the Liberals).
The Libs and NDP hold all the cabinet positions and the Bloc will obviously get concessions for QC, likely the same concessions Harper would have been forced to give them anyway.
Throughout all this the usual cons simply cannot grasp the fact that it was Harper who engineerd his own downfall should it happen. He's running scared now knowing that should his govt lose power to a coalition, no matter how brief, the calls for his replacement will be loud.
You guys can talk all you want about it being a back room power ploy but its exactly the move you would have praised Harper for pulling off had he done it.
Harper has had numerous opportunities to avoid this. He all but made it impossible for him to simply reach out and make a deal with either the Libs or NDP and all but impossible for them to accept any such deal.
Ideally for the country would be for Harper to back off his political partisan bill ploy (done), table a real economic stimulus plan (working) and to openly accept responsibility and openly make a deal for support from the Liberals.
He isn't. You wanted Dion to accept responsibility for the Liberal failure and he did. Now its time for Harper to accept responsibility for his failure and you cons to accept that everything that has transpired is entirely his fault.