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Sunday 6 June 2010
Angus Reid: Ignatieff out of step with majority of Liberals on coalition aspect
Posted by 2011 at 11:03Michael Ignatieff is to be commended for taking firm grasp of the coalition nettle, and refusing to let PM Harper frame coalition governments in Canada as illegitimate. During his recent visit to London, Harper seized on the opportunity to once again make public announcements about Canadian parliamentary conventions which are false, and not appropriate for a prime minister of a Westminster style democracy to make.
Harper's Three Frames
Harper has used three points in his (and his party's) framing of the biggest threat to a Conservative minority government after the next election.
Harper Frame 1: Losers don't get to govern
First, he has picked up on the framing used in Britain after the hung parliament was elected, that a coalition between the Labour Party and the Liberal-Democrats would be a "coalition of losers", and – in typical Harper fashion – put a false twist on the parliamentary convention by claiming that winners get to govern, and not losers:
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