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<blockquote data-quote="Canadian_Rugger" data-source="post: 231750"><p>You are absolutely right I believe Prestwick,in your analogy of the current political situation. We had a major discussion about this today in my third year federalism and constitutions class. As it stands the majority of Canadians do not understand the political system of our country. They do not understand that you vote for a constituent and not the Prime Minister or party. If you asked most Canadians who they were voting for they would probably tell you the leader of the party they voted for and not their MP. </p><p></p><p>The problem with this is and this is how the Conservatives are spinning it is that the Liberals and NDP have hijacked democracy. The Liberals have lost a lot of headway to the NDP recently and part of the reasons the Cons were able to gain so much in the previous election wasn't due to them garnering much more support it was because the Liberals split the vote with the NDP in many of their ridings. I have a feeling that this situation while it may give the Liberal party a tactical victory in the short term in the long term it is going to damage them. There are going to be a lot of red tories who don't like the idea of siding with the NDP and the Bloc and this is going to force them to move over to the otherside.</p><p></p><p>In any case if this government goes down Harper's political career is over. I feel that he bit of a little more then he could chew... he knows the liberal party is in a huge amount of debt and he tried to cut their heads off by cutting out public funding with which the Conservatives only draw 37% of their income from. As Harper is his own tactician I am sure the knives are already being brought out in the back rooms.</p><p></p><p>As for the Liberals they are going to further weaken their power base as more people will now vote NDP as the distinction between the two parties is skewed and more people will now vote conservative as many red tories will be very upset by all this. I think the Liberals should of backed off, they got their public funding back they got what they wanted they should of stayed away and rebuilt for next election. </p><p></p><p>The ultimate winner in this situation though is Mr. Layton and boy oh boy do I hate that loud mouthed idiot. He has brought his party into previously uncharted territory though and for that he should be commended by his supporters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Canadian_Rugger, post: 231750"] You are absolutely right I believe Prestwick,in your analogy of the current political situation. We had a major discussion about this today in my third year federalism and constitutions class. As it stands the majority of Canadians do not understand the political system of our country. They do not understand that you vote for a constituent and not the Prime Minister or party. If you asked most Canadians who they were voting for they would probably tell you the leader of the party they voted for and not their MP. The problem with this is and this is how the Conservatives are spinning it is that the Liberals and NDP have hijacked democracy. The Liberals have lost a lot of headway to the NDP recently and part of the reasons the Cons were able to gain so much in the previous election wasn't due to them garnering much more support it was because the Liberals split the vote with the NDP in many of their ridings. I have a feeling that this situation while it may give the Liberal party a tactical victory in the short term in the long term it is going to damage them. There are going to be a lot of red tories who don't like the idea of siding with the NDP and the Bloc and this is going to force them to move over to the otherside. In any case if this government goes down Harper's political career is over. I feel that he bit of a little more then he could chew... he knows the liberal party is in a huge amount of debt and he tried to cut their heads off by cutting out public funding with which the Conservatives only draw 37% of their income from. As Harper is his own tactician I am sure the knives are already being brought out in the back rooms. As for the Liberals they are going to further weaken their power base as more people will now vote NDP as the distinction between the two parties is skewed and more people will now vote conservative as many red tories will be very upset by all this. I think the Liberals should of backed off, they got their public funding back they got what they wanted they should of stayed away and rebuilt for next election. The ultimate winner in this situation though is Mr. Layton and boy oh boy do I hate that loud mouthed idiot. He has brought his party into previously uncharted territory though and for that he should be commended by his supporters. [/QUOTE]
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