Parliament is working -- if the government is defeated on a vote of confidence then we need an election, otherwise not. Isn't that the whole point of saying we'll have fixed election dates? My sense is the "in-and-out" business is causing considerable grief in the Conservative Party and they are looking to an election to bury it.
DANIEL LEBLANC AND CAMPBELL CLARK
From Friday's Globe and Mail
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday he will not govern over a “dysfunctional” Parliament and warned for the first time he could take matters into his own hands and force the country into a fall election.
Mr. Harper's made his threat as he and other government officials grew increasingly testy over four days of rare summer hearings into the Conservative Party's “in-and-out” advertising scheme in the 2006 election campaign.
He warned the opposition two weeks ago that he would not tolerate parliamentary committees acting as “kangaroo courts,” but a senior Conservative official said Thursday it doesn't look as though the opposition was listening.
Full story here:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080814.wharper15/BNStory/National/home
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Morton, you should know that the Cons used a "loophole".
Otherwise there could be charges filed.
Until charges are filed, one can only assume that nothing illegal happened.
Am I wrong?
johnathon,
Where in this post did Mr. Morton use the words "charges filed" & "illegal"?
You are intimating something that never happened here.
Perhaps you need your eyes checked.
If it's legal,it's legal and more power to them. There is nothing wrong ith reading the law carefully and complying with it in an adventageous way -- that's what tax lawyers spend their lives doing. But this stuff seems pretty close to the edge and maybe over the line.
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