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Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff should not insist in the campaign that the Liberals will shun cooperation. Leave that line to the Conservatives.
The election is coming but no one knows when, with the possible exception of the Prime Minister, who is not averse, as we learned in the run-up to last year's election, to declaring Parliament dysfunctional even when it is not in session. The election will almost certainly come before the 2012 date provided for in his phony fixed election date law. Most likely, it will occur next year but the public's election fatigue will not have abated. Four elections in the course of six years—in a constitutional system that requires no more than one election every five years—is an unsustainable and undesirable state of affairs.
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Is a quasi-coalition coming to the next Parliament?
Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff should not insist in the campaign that the Liberals will shun cooperation. Leave that line to the Conservatives.
The election is coming but no one knows when, with the possible exception of the Prime Minister, who is not averse, as we learned in the run-up to last year's election, to declaring Parliament dysfunctional even when it is not in session. The election will almost certainly come before the 2012 date provided for in his phony fixed election date law. Most likely, it will occur next year but the public's election fatigue will not have abated. Four elections in the course of six years—in a constitutional system that requires no more than one election every five years—is an unsustainable and undesirable state of affairs.
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