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Conservative Government Toppled in Non Confidence Vote

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Friday, March 25, 2011 11:20 AM

Prince George, B.C.-  We are heading to the polls.
 
Moments ago, the House of Commons voted against supporting the federal budget, and that is a vote  of “non-confidence”. The final vote was  156  in favour of the  non confidence motion ,   145  against.
 
The Prime Minister is expected to go to the Governor General tomorrow morning to  request that Parliament be dissolved and an election date be set.
 
The most likely date for a ballot is May 2nd.
 
The outcome, of the  confidence vote was clear long before any “ayes” or “nays”  were registered this morning.
 
The House  spent about an hour before the vote, saying  thank you and good bye to Speaker of the House Peter Milliken. He has been the longest serving speaker of the House, having been in that position since January of 2001.
 
One by one, Members of Parliament rose to thank him for his years of service, pointing out that since Confederation, the Speaker has been called upon 10 times to  cast the deciding vote, and five of those occasions it was Milliken who cast the vote.

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I wonder who is going to represent the Bloc in Prince George.
unfortunately was expected. Considering how long the consernatives have been in power (re-elected a few times in last 5 years), the populus have confidence in them. I am personally hoping for conservatives to gain a majority this time. Get some stability in the government for 4 to 5 years.
What a bunch of idiots (Lib/NDP/Bloc) this country needs a majority government, all the political parties have been doing for too long is squabble, and that interferes with the operation of the government. So much time and money is wasted because of the minority clowns, if they could somehow all pull together, we would have a much more stable federal government. But no, all we get is constant chaos, it is sickening. Makes me feel ashamed to be Canadian sometimes.
metalman.
I, too, am hoping for a Majority Government. I think part of the problem is too many parties to choose from makes the vote easier to split, as well as it makes easier to band together and topple a minority government.
Good times. Can't wait for the attack ads stating Harper wants to eat your baby, Ignatieff is a shape shifting alien bla bla bla. I'm hoping someone preferably on a TV broadcast can ask one of these dirt bags to us the reasoning for voting for Bill C-42.
We complain about some little crook cruising around our communities,and then we want to give a majority to people that recently have been proven to being large scale crooks.We have to be the dummest species on the planet,except for the people in the middle east that say enough is enough!
Who cares ?
I expect their will be some other decisions to be made about leadership once this election is over. Can't really expect any different behavior as long as we have the same leaders performing.
Let's be clear if the Tories dont get their majority....

Canada will be governed by a Liberal/Bloc/NDP coalition....

Just imagine...

Iggy....Prime Minister

Layton....Finance Minister

Duceppe....with a Veto over every govt. decision.

This will be a Perversion of Democracy


I hope the Liberals get trounced and Iggy goes back to his adopted country. I would seriously consider jumping ship and voting Liberal if it wasn't for him. I really don't want an American wannabe in charge of Canada.
have to agree with
dpj, metalman, gimmeabreak and with faxman in particular.you have all posted what i was going to post, thank you.
Sounds like Harper is getting what he wants
another crack at a Majority. If these IDIOTS want this so bad let them pay for it themselves. I can think of a hell of alot of good use a half billion could do.
These arrogant elitist morons are so out of touch with reality. No wonder politicians are held in contempt.
meatalman wrote: "What a bunch of idiots (Lib/NDP/Bloc) this country needs a majority government."

Hey metalman .... they agree with you, so you must be an idiot too.

Why do they agree with you? Because there has not been a majority government since the Liberals were in power. So, the oppostion in a minority government is saying the same thing since they only way there would have been a majority government would have been if one of the three had formed a coalition with the Cons.

So, one more attempt at getting a majority government. Will it work this time?
I have voted both Lib & Con over the years but there is no way in hell I will vote Liberal this time unless they unequivocally rule out a coalition with the NDP.
Well I hope everyone likes a smaller paycheque, because with this mess in power, you think your gas, food and taxes are high now? You can welcome the HST with open arms, just like you can welcome tax hikes on everything, while the coalition creeps will try to sell you on why its so much better for you to give 60% of your paycheque to them so they can fund some stupid program they dreamed up for that exact purpose. I think I'll move to Seattle where only one crook is stealing from me. At least then I know who to blame. I am certainly going to the polls and I hope everyone else will too. if we don't we can pat ourselves on the back for all the new prices we'll be paying.
But then again Harper is an economist, so having an election, will probably make the dollar take a dive, due to unrest of the Cdn government. Which will make Canada competitve again on the world market, which economically would be good for the Canadian government. The bummer is the Libs will take full credit for it and we;ll end up getting screwed anyways. i say we vote for Rick Mercer!!!
And so it begins. Larry, Moe and Curly the three stooges running around in circles and harping at Harper. Who's afraid of the big bad wolf??? The sky is falling the sky is falling?? The earth is flat, be careful you'll fall off the edge. Merci mon ami, can you spare some change, how about $2.6 Billion for starters.

On and on it goes. Liberals, NDP, Bloc. Left, Lefty, and Leftist. They all have their hands out, **More** **More** **More**

Their motto is *You can work while we play, and be sure to raise our pay.*

Have a nice day.
I am sick of people complaining that they do not want an election. With all the turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East, it is sad that so many people complain about exercising their democratic right to vote. Lets get educated about the issues and have a good discourse about what we think. Most of all, be happy to be free and have a say in the democratic process.
Yes we do have a say in the process but it's only during election day. After that is over, the power goes back to Ottawa. A majority government has never been good for Canada as long as I can remember. Deif, Trudeau, Mulroney, Cretin; bad news every one of em.