No signatures on the Globe and Mail Document
I was reading this story in the Globe and Mail and find it strange that none of the leaders Stockwell Day, Joe Clark or Gilles Duceppe have signed the agreement. Stockwell Day was very clear that he did not agree to this and in fact never saw the agreement. The lawyer says MPs never discussed the idea.
I also do not think the coalition can claim legitimacy for this coalition based on what might have been suggested in the year 2000 or in a letter to the Governor General in 2004. Those coalitions did not occur. On Tuesday (assuming the vote takes place on Monday), there is a real reality that a coalition government will be formed that is unelected and dependent of support from the separatist party. A formal coalition is different than soliciting support on an issue by issue basis. If Stephane Dion and Jack Layton want to bring a separatist party into the Canadian parliament they should justify that action on its merits alone. Digging up documents from the past is not what is going to give this government democratic legitimacy.
-Darryl
