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Originally Posted by Charlatan
It is *not* the job of the opposition to bring down the govenment or even defeat the budget. It is there job to temper the debate by offering an opposing point of view.
Would you rather he got up on Canada's birthday and said it all sucks and the country is in the shitter? That's the opposition's job, no?
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Your right, it is the the job to temper debate regarding the nation's affairs in all parlimentary precedings, and if you remember, Harper and the Tories were willing to work together and did with Martin and the Liberals, and were doing so through different Commons commitees until,.......good old Jack Layton stepped up to the plate, sold his NDP soul for a Liberal one and the Liberals said,..well we don't need the Tories anymore,..fuck 'em. But if you read the Globe and Mail, the details probably never made it to print.
To bad for Layton also. That 4.6 billion in social policy promised by Martin (yet another promise) will never see the light of day. Remember Chretien in '93 telling the masses that under Liberal rule, child poverty will be abolished, and among other things the GST and more support for women's groups, aboriginals etc etc etc. Never happened. Never will. But I digress.
Well Charlatan, tongue in cheek. I KNOW he will say that, best country,.....blah blah blah. And your right again, it is the oppositions position to say other wise,...and not to mention Canada's most senior corporate leaders say the same thing. Check out the Canadian Council Of Chief Executives. Some of them are the likes of Gordon Nixon of the Royal Bank, Dominic D'Alessandro Of Manulife Financial and one notable surprise, long time Liberal Paul Desmerais Jr. of Power Corp. They don't think things look to good for the future either. But I'll say it again, how many people really care?