# Canadian opposition seeks to topple Harper's 6-week-old government

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 2, 2008, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-opposition-seeks-to-topple-harpers-6-week-old-government/475266 "2008-12-02T00:08:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-opposition-seeks-to-topple-harpers-6-week-old-government/475266/1 "2008-12-02T00:08:05Z")

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And form a Liberal-NDP coalition government. Story [here.](http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aqCHpErvMttA&refer=canada) As I understand it this is all perfectly proper in a parliamentary system, but is it right to do this so soon after an election? And will they succeed? And how will the public react?

As a left-liberal I suppose I should be supportive of anything that lets the [NDP](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_democratic_party) (the inspiration for America’s erstwhile [New Party](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Party_(United_States))) into the national government for once (it never has been before, AFAIK), but still . . .

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-opposition-seeks-to-topple-harpers-6-week-old-government/475266/2 "2008-12-02T00:11:15Z")

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Tsk. [Beaten by 15 minutes.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=495517) Mods, please merge threads or close this one.