Posted on 11/24/2005 7:19:15 PM PST by SmithL
TORONTO -- Opposition parties introduced a no-confidence motion Thursday that is expected to topple Prime Minister Paul Martin's government and force a parliamentary election campaign during the Christmas holidays.
Canada's three opposition party leaders said their members would vote in Parliament on Monday to bring down Martin's minority government, claiming his Liberal Party no longer has the moral authority to lead the nation because of a corruption scandal.
Opposition leaders forced the no-confidence vote after Martin rejected their demands to dissolve Parliament in January and hold early elections in February. The widely expected move followed a frantic week in Ottawa, with the government making a cascade of policy announcements before its looming demise.
Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper said his party would join with the New Democratic and Bloc Quebecois parties to bring down the government — forcing the first Christmas campaigning in 26 years. The elections will likely be in January.
"This House has lost confidence in the government," Harper said.
Recent polls have given the Liberals a slight lead over the Conservatives, with the New Democrats in third place.
The same surveys suggest the Bloc Quebecois would sweep the French-speaking province of Quebec, making a majority government unlikely no matter which party wins the most seats in the 308-member House of Commons.
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No Fooling!
No Sh*t!
They lost the moral authority to govern a decade ago. Too bad Canadians and immigrant Canadians alike are too stupid to realise.
Sure as hell no confidence in them here.
Or here.
This is exactly what the Loony Lefty RATS would love to do down here. There is that pesky little thing called a constitution though and that just gives them fits!! They have not figured out a way to just vote out Bush, Cheney, and Rove, and put in John Effing "I served in Viet Nam" Kerry.
I spent six weeks in Canada this summer. The Liberal Party is popular there. The prime minister is not.
Woohoo!
Ohmygod. They actually look good together. She looks like Hillary v 2.0
<< No Sh*t!
They lost the moral authority to govern a decade ago. Too bad Canadians and immigrant Canadians alike are too stupid to realise. >>
The traitor, Trudeau, put Trudeaustan in history's toilet decades ago.
Even that sorry socialist state's subjects' SELF-confidence, let alone any confidence in their feral gummint, left town with his gang.
And the thieving-bastard pantheist parade of his abortoir-operator successors have but poured kerosene of the smouldering detritus of Canada's every hope.
While every Canadian with even half a brain including those such among the immigrant rats who'd run in to raid and loot and pillage in Trudeau's destructive path have since seen fit to escape south.
How about those pouty little breast?...lol.
How about those pouty little breast?...lol.
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