Opposition to the proposed coalition developed in all provinces except Quebec. On Dec. 4, 2008, the Governor General granted Prime Minister Harper’s request to suspend parliament until January 26, 2009, at which time Harper had planned to introduce the budget. Dion had since been ousted from the leadership of the Liberals and his successor, Michael Ignatieff, had distanced himself from the coalition.
Layton remained committed to ousting the Harper government,. pledging that the NDP would vote against the Conservative budget regardless of what it contained. Layton urged Ignatieff’s Liberal Party to topple the Conservatives before the shelf life of the coalition expired; constitutional experts said that four months after the last election, if the government fell, the Governor General would likely grant the Prime Minister’s request to dissolve parliament instead of inviting the coalition.
Layton died on August 22, 2011. His long-time personal friend Bob Rae became Liberal Leader replacing the defeated Ignatieff in 2011.
That’s why, nine months later, Canadian opposition parties still work on ways to bring down the Conservative government.
In Canada, there is little if any difference between the Liberals and the NDP.
Bob Rae is LINO (Liberal in Name Only). He’s a socialist who grew up calling UN Poster Boy Maurice Strong, second only to George Soros in Obama mentorship, “Uncle Mo”.
Nowhere in his well-oiled trajectory from Ontario’s first socialist premier to leader of the Canadian Liberal Party has Bob Rae ever denounced socialism.
The emperor who works from the inside to bring the duly elected Conservative Government down hasn’t changed his policy, only his political stripe.
In Canadian politics, some astro-turfed conspiracies never end.