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I feel that somehow democracy has failed. We just voted a platform/party into power because the other platforms were not what we wanted.
Now, before this party has a chance to do anything a coalition of all the other parties are going to revoke their right to govern with the platform we just voted in. Instead we now face the reality of being governed by a platform that no one voted on. Even Mr. Dion does not seem to know what it is. Oh and didn't Mr. Dion say he'd never form a coalition government just recently? heh...
What's more disconcerting is that Mr. Duiceppe is the man with the balance of power now. While I feel he is a very intelligent man with some decent economic reasoning (at least, much better then Mr. Layton), his party stands for breaking up Canada into 3 little bits and this country does not want to be broken up. So now, this coalition is putting an enormous amount of power into his hands as he is the swing vote. I only wonder what concessions Mr. Dion gave him (wasn't Dion a separatist in the late 70's?)...
And Layton well. I personally believe he has sacrificed much to get this little bit of power. He has backtracked on several key issues and I wonder if his voters are going to be happy about this. I think no.
I'm afraid of how far these men will plunge our country into debt in the wake of this mess. A deficit one year quickly grows to a deficit next year and it suddenly becomes a repeating cycle...
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