I’d like to make four points in answer to criticism of the proposed
coalition:

1. In Canada we
   do NOT elect a Prime Minister, we elect a Parliament.  Parliament then decides which group has
   the confidence of the House to govern and that group’s leader becomes
   Prime Minister.
2. The
   Bloc ran in the last election NOT as separatist but as an anti CPC (stop
   Harper) choice. They received more than 50% of the vote in Quebec.  Quebec
   is very much a part of Canada
   and this Quebec
   anti CPC vote must be included in the Canadian totals.
3. Over
   60 % of the Canadian electorate all across Canada
   (yes there are both Liberal and NDP seats west of Ontario and in all of the Western
   ridings not held by the CPC one or the other ran second). The proposed
   coalition represents a majority of all Canadians; Harper’s Conservatives do
   NOT.  The House has both a moral and
   legal right to place its confidence in the proposed coalition. Talk of a
   coup d’état is nonsense!
4. In
   the economic update and the accompanying proposed legislation, Harper
   showed what the CPC would do if it had a majority. He was behaving very
   aggressively and uncooperatively.  Canada
   thoroughly rejected this right wing platform in denying him a majority;
   Canadians wanted a working minority government to hold the CPC’s right
   wing in check.  In a minority
   government the governing group has to work with the other parties and make
   compromises.  Harper’s tactics last
   week make it impossible for this House to work with him.  He and his PMO have to go! At the very
   least turn over the CPC to the moderates in the party.