Along the same lines, it is also a great idea to shove your arm down a vat of acid.
| With the announcement of a formal alliance among opposition parties, Canada moved closer Monday to removing its Conservative government without holding an election. If the pact — signed by the Liberal and New Democratic parties and the Bloc Québécois — is successful at dislodging the Conservatives, it will be the first time since 1926 that the federal government has changed hands without a vote. Coalition governments are rare in Canada, and the opposition plan still faces constitutional and political uncertainties. Adding to the political turmoil is speculation about how Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose government is outnumbered by the opposition in Parliament, will respond. Over the weekend, the Conservatives tried to stifle the movement against them by withdrawing some economic proposals, including an end to public financing of political parties, that angered the opposition parties and prompted the negotiations that led to their alliance. ....Under the plan, Stéphane Dion, the Liberal leader, would become prime minister. Because Mr. Dion resigned following his party’s poor showing in October’s election, he would turn over the prime minister’s office to whomever the Liberals chose as leader at a convention in May. The New Democrats, who have never held power at the federal level, would be given 6 posts in a 25-member coalition cabinet, although the key position of finance minister would be reserved for a Liberal. |
What idiots think this is a good idea even in the short term? They pull off this coup, the Bloc will blackmail the hell out of the other two to get as much money for Quebec, the NDP will demand action on their leftist policies that by themselves no likes except a narrow few and the liberals who should be trying to rebuild their party has a lame duck at first as Prime Minister.
This is stuff of banana republics not a leading western nation.
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