
To Her Excellency Michaelle Jean, Prime Minister Harper, Mr. Dion, and Mr. Layton,
It is with great disgust and much anger that I am writing to protest against the dirty political ploy put together by the Liberals and the NDP.
I will be quite frank here – when Canadians from coast to coast headed to the polls on October 14, 2008, we have spoken as a whole and voted for the Conservative Party to be our biggest political representatives in the House of Commons. Following our proud nation's long standing democratic traditions, this also means we, as Canadians, have voted for the Conservative Party to lead a minority government on Parliament Hill with the Conservative Party leader, Mr. Stephen Harper, as our Prime Minister. The matter has long been settled – for a good month and a half, Canadians from coast to coast (and this includes members of the Liberal Party and the NDP) have all agreed to honour and respect the results of the federal election and recognize Mr. Harper as our Prime Minister.
Had the Liberals and the NDP wanted to form a coalition government and elect Liberal leader, Mr. Stephane Dion, to be Canada's Prime Minister instead, they should have proposed the plan to Her Excellency, Michaelle Jean immediately following the election. Such a proposal would have deviated from the traditional process of Canadian elections, but at least the sore losers' salvage attempt could be disguised as a fresh political revival to our age-old system.
But time for such opportunities has passed. To call for a Liberal-NDP coalition government to replace the Conservative minority, and to replace Mr. Harper with Mr. Dion as the Prime Minister, is a blatant insult to Canada's long-standing democratic process. After all the political bickering and gesturing, and given all the backroom political dealing and scheming that have been revealed, it is plainly obvious that the Liberal Party and the NDP have no regard for the goods and interests of Canada in their minds. Their only concern is to shamelessly satisfy their lust for power, Canada be damned!
As the Opposition to our minority government, the Liberal-NDP coalition is bestowed with the power to overthrow the Conservative minority government via a vote of (no) confidence. In light of that, I welcome the Liberal-NDP coalition to exercise their right to a no confidence vote. But, following such votes of (no) confidence, the proper procedure under the Canadian democratic process dictates that Her Excellency, Michaelle Jean, must dissolve parliament and call for a new federal election.
Instead of relying on slimey backroom dealings and dirty political scheming to decide who forms our parliament and who serves as our prime minister, I know that nation-wide, Canadians will accept nothing less than the open and fair democratic system that has dutifully served us for over 140 years.
-Lik of Vancouver, BC
原帖由 Lik 於 2008-12-1 16:04 發表
I urge fellow LYKs to look at what is happening on Parliament Hill, and think for themselves that should a new federal election come again, who would you vote for and why you would vote for him and hi ...
To be honest, DO U THINK WE CAN TRUST?原帖由 bbqfish 於 2008-12-1 18:58 發表
eee! Are you really the original Lik gor??? I think so.. no other LYK would write such letter la.. at least no one did since u last wrote a letter about the Tibet incident. Anyways, so surprised to ...

原帖由 soli 於 2008-12-1 21:55 發表
這次金融海嘯﹐讓自由市場主義再次破產。為挽救經濟﹐各國政府經濟政策也向左傾斜﹐連號稱最自由經濟體﹐失業率還在4%以下的香港﹐也保證不削減政府開支﹐避免增加任何對經濟不利的因素。
偏偏有我們的保守黨﹐基於意識形態的限制 ...


原帖由 soli 於 2008-12-1 21:31 發表
我沒有投票給保守黨﹐大部份加拿大人亦跟我一樣。如果代表大部份加拿大人既政黨反對保守黨繼續執政﹐少數服從多數﹐將保守黨拉下來有何不可﹐而且這是憲法所允許的。
保守黨在競選時期沒有提出任何挽救經濟的措施﹐執政後也漠視其他政黨對刺激經濟的要求﹐獨斷獨行。一個少數政府﹐如果一直不能跟其他政黨合作﹐繼續執政下去﹐對加拿大又有甚麼好處呢?
原帖由 soli 於 2008-12-1 21:55 發表
這次金融海嘯﹐讓自由市場主義再次破產。為挽救經濟﹐各國政府經濟政策也向左傾斜﹐連號稱最自由經濟體﹐失業率還在4%以下的香港﹐也保證不削減政府開支﹐避免增加任何對經濟不利的因素。
偏偏有我們的保守黨﹐基於意識形態的限制﹐遲遲未能對現在惡劣的經濟環境作出任何適當反應﹐只懂賤賣國家資產﹐削減開支這些右派技倆(即不干預市場)﹐逆天而行。更以削減開支作為打擊政敵的籍口﹐以本傷人﹐令其跟其他政黨的合空間完全消失。
所以這次反對黨派要聯手推倒保守黨﹐絕對合情合理兼合法。很多人害怕政局不穩定﹐但兩害相權取其輕。若保守黨繼續執政﹐亦只會是一跛腳鴨政府﹐難以應付目前經濟環境。自由黨的理財能手不少﹐在經濟措施方面﹐我對自由黨帶領下的聯合政府更具信心~
原帖由 soli 於 2008-12-2 00:23 發表
很奇怪呢~
如果在選舉結束後﹐自由黨和新民主黨立刻申請要成立聯合政府﹐會得到魁人黨的支持嗎? 不會吧~
為甚麼現在就可以呢?
是保守黨執政後太自大和卑鄙了﹐可惡得在國會裡得不到任何其他反對黨的支持。
總合我上面所說﹐說組聯合政府合情合理兼合法。
合法者﹐乎合加拿大憲法。
合情: 保守黨欺人太甚﹐反對黨派乃狗急跳場而已~
合理者﹐經濟環境改變﹐右派政權倒台乃大勢所趨﹐而聯合政府所代表的是過半數加拿大人﹐這正正體現了少數服從多數的民主精神。
原帖由 soli 於 2008-12-1 23:09 發表
那 BiscottiGelato 即認為現在政府應該甚麼也不用做。大企業銀行要倒就讓他們倒﹐失業率上升就讓他升﹐政府收入少了﹐就削減開支﹐帶頭裁減公務員﹐加稅。等到大家跳樓的跳樓﹐燒炭的燒炭。重複看兒子欠債砍母親﹐失業父親殺全家後 ...

原帖由 zoids 於 2008-12-2 17:19 發表
Oh ****, Lik is BACK! Here we go again....... history will repeat itself once more.
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原帖由 ACC-HE 於 2008-12-3 00:16 發表
I HATE Stéphane Dion! I HATE Stéphane Dion! I HATE Stéphane Dion! I HATE Stéphane Dion! I HATE Stéphane Dion! I HATE Stéphane Dion! I HATE Stéphane Dion! I HATE Stéphane Dion! I HATE Stéphane ...

原帖由 John Weston
Finally, if Liberals suggest this Conservative government is not legitimate because it did not receive 50% of the popular vote, I would remind them that no Liberal government in Canadian history has ever received 50% of the vote (that has only happened twice – by Conservatives in 1958 and 1984), and I can’t remember Liberals ever suggesting that the three majority governments won by Jean Chretien in 1993, 1997 and 2000 with 41.3%, 38.5% and 40.8% of the vote, respectively, were somehow less than legitimate.
For more than 140 years, despite the fact that parties almost never get 50% of the popular vote, our parliamentary system has produced stable and legitimate governments. In my view, this is not a weakness of our system. It is an enviable record of balancing three principles necessary for any successful electoral system – democracy, legitimacy and stability.


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