Well, the Liberals have won majorities with not much more than that 38% and nobody complained about that (Aside from the PCs, the NDP and the Bloc and who cares what they think? They're not Liberals). Just because the CPC happen to be baby-eating reactionary monsters who no doubt are plotting the destruction of everything good and decent in the world should not mean that they can't exploit the same foibles of the Canadian system as the Natural Ruling Party.
Harper probably figured that with Dion on his way out, the Liberals are very weak (and broke), that cooperation between the NDP and Liberals was very unlikely and also pointless because they have fewer seats together than Harper does and that that the three opposition parties could not cooperate long enough to foil him given that they cannot affort to fight another election right now. "What if they form a Three Party Coalition and take my toys away" probably never occured to him.
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Date: 2008-12-05 03:31 pm (UTC)Harper probably figured that with Dion on his way out, the Liberals are very weak (and broke), that cooperation between the NDP and Liberals was very unlikely and also pointless because they have fewer seats together than Harper does and that that the three opposition parties could not cooperate long enough to foil him given that they cannot affort to fight another election right now. "What if they form a Three Party Coalition and take my toys away" probably never occured to him.