Quote Originally Posted by zensunni View Post
This is done so that a minority government has to be accountable to it's majority. However, Harper screamed that the liberals were overthrowing the government and the general populous was just too ignorant to know what was really going on. Harper was trying to bully the majority into accepting him into office.
Precisely. An ignorant electorate listened to the "sky is falling" lies coming from the Conservative corner, and Canadians suddenly thought they were Americans. Kiefer should be outraged--the government intentionally fuelled the well-known ignorance of the Canadian electorate in order to remain in power despite having lost the confidence of the majority of Parliament. There is no way in holy hell that these rogues should be in government now. Every Canadian should be scandalized to their core. It doesn't matter WHO the party is that effected such a stunning coup, this is simply a political scandal and a display of power-mongering, arrogance and high-handedness of the tallest order (the very things Harper and his cronies bleated against while in opposition, by the way).