ryan29 ryan29:
hurley_108 hurley_108:
This is wrong on so many levels. The government serves with the confidence of the HOUSE not the SENATE. Also, this would be a clear end run around their own fixed election dates law.
well this would be an usual move but if the senate does not pass these bills then they are not doing there job's and clearly things are not geting done in parliament.
That doesn't constitute non-confidence though. And you've got it backwards anyways. If they go ahead and pass blatantly unconstitutional law (reverse onus), THEN they're not doing their jobs.
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and as for fixed election dates law they are hard to apply to a minority situation and opposition has been talking about bring the government down anyways . there is still specualtion liberals migth vote against budget or bring it down at another time before 2009 .
Oh come off it. The whole point of fixed election dates is so that the government can't simply call an election when it suits them. So now Harper has to invent all these bogus confidence matters to do an end run around his own legislation so he can get his election when it suits him.