Tuesday, December 9, 2008
A Coalition government is Legal so can we as a nation accept it and what our representatives do.
I may only be 17. I may be only an average Grade 12 student in a small Canadian city. But I can't help but believe that I know more about politics then the majority of the country, and no offense to others. When news about the coalition started spreading across the country, people became outragged saying that it's unfair and un-democratic and should not be done. Has anyone ever taken History or Civics in high school? I know that in my Grade 10 year i was taught that a coalition was democratic, legal and HAS been done in our lovely country of CANADA before. Has anyone ever heard of the King-Byng Affair? Wikipedia it if you don't. It may be our last coalition government and occured over 80 years ago but it's still apart of our country. Some argue that we elected Stephen Harper so he should be Prime Minister. The problem with that is he did not obtain 50% of the vote or the number of seats required for a majority so why doesn't the majority of Canadians let our ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES make decisions without us complaining about them in paper and to our friends. Stephen Harper is a hipocrit. If he didn't try to make this country a one party country and not offer a stimulus package with our economy being held up by the rotten supports of the U.S. economy then this attempt of a coalition would of never happened. AND Stephen Harper himself has tried to form a coalition in the past when Paul Martin and the Liberals held a minority government. This attempt failed. Could Harper be jealous because Dion and Layton have the brains to form a coalition? Wouldn't suprise me. And what is with reports that Harper might ask the Queen to "fire" the Governer-General? Is this a democracy or a communistic country?
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Well, you support the Green party so I'm not going to read ANY of what you wrote since you obviously can't know THAT much about politics.
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