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Looks like we're going to the polls again.

Silver

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I hope this blows up in the oppositions face and we finally get a majority so we can get on with the business of the nation.


Opposition leaders reject federal budget
By Meagan Fitzpatrick, CBC News
Posted: Mar 22, 2011 4:06 PM ET

Opposition leaders immediately rejected the Conservative government's budget Tuesday, setting the stage for a possible spring election.

Within minutes of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty tabling his "low-tax plan for jobs and growth" in the House of Commons, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe and NDP Jack Layton all said the budget didn't contain enough to warrant their support.

"We find that the priorities of this government are not the priorities of ordinary Canadians," Ignatieff said. The Liberal leader, who has been demanding a cancellation of corporate tax cuts and didn't get it, cited the lack of support in the budget for affordable housing and child care as other reasons why his party will not vote in favour of the budget.

"This is a government that doesn't seem to be listening to what Canadian families are telling us," he said. "We're forced to reject this budget."

Duceppe's rejection of the budget is based on the budget's silence on his demand for a $2.2-billion deal to compensate Quebec for HST harmonization.
 

gcreekrch

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Apparently the Opposition parties don't want to be debt free someday. :roll:

I too hope it backfires and Harper gets the majority he needs.
 

S.S.A.P.

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I agree - a little opposition doesn't hurt to keep some heads up - but not the pissing match they persist with. :mad:

Personal opinion - Layton for some unknown reason gives me the jeebies ... the bloc is well, just Quebec as usual, and Ignatieff reminds me of Obama~ "where's home Toto?"
 

Silver

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S.S.A.P. said:
Personal opinion - Layton for some unknown reason gives me the jeebies ... the bloc is well, just Quebec as usual, and Ignatieff reminds me of Obama~ "where's home Toto?"

You got that right. Every time I see that peacock Layton talk I get disgusted and mad. I don't know why the media gives him any attention at all, it's not like he'll ever be PM. And Ignatieff just isn't a politician, or a Canadian for that matter :? Probably a nice guy, but not up for the job.
 

per

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You never know what can happen at the polls. Quebec and Ontario drive the boat, we have a good idea where Quebec will go and Ontario is famously unpredictable. Such a waste if we don't get a majority.
 

burnt

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Ontario has been all too predictable in the past . . .

But this time, I have a feeling that a lot of people are fed up with the grinning face of Taliban Jack and can't stand the thought of the quasi-Canadian Iggy at the head of the country.

However, in this day and age, it gives pause when one contemplates the idea of giving any party a majority, sad to say.

Still, I would like to see Harper do well.
 

Tam

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I would like to see a majority just so we don't have to live with the threat of an election everytime Iggy and Layton get an idea to make the nightly news. How many times have those two held the Harper Government up then backed down at the last minute because they knew they would not win if an election was called. It's Time for Canada to get some work done without the child's play.

And I'm with you on Iggy being to much like Obama. I can see him destroying our ecomony just like Obama is the US's. The guy doesn't deserve to be the PM of Canada. He should go back to his Liberal Elite life at Harvard and leave Canada to the people that live here and have made a living here for the past several decades unlike him. :x

Just to clarify before the Liberals jump all over me saying he should leave Canada to those living here. Yes I voted in the US election but I DID NOT RUN FOR PRESIDENT. Iggy can excerise his right to vote in Canada all he wants he just shouldn't beable to come back after 30 years of living in a foreign country and think he can run for PM the minute he steps foot on Canadian soil.
 
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