"There's a rumour that's gaining traction, the Bloc have struck a deal with Stephen Harper," NDP MP Pat Martin (Winnepeg Centre, Man.) told The Hill Times. "They'll be their dancing partner until 2012."
Uh-huh...Pat Martin says so, right?
I think Duceppe learned after the 2006 election that steve’s promises decay faster than ununoctium. The Bloc leader has stated in the past that his party’s goal is independence for Quebec, and that in any votes in the House the Bloc will place the interests of Quebec first. Duceppe is smart enough to know that long term, harper would do more to damage Quebec culture and Quebec as a province than the few small concessions he may actually grant in a bid for support are worth.
If there’s some cahooting going on, I think it may have more to do with this.
Le parti de Jack Layton profite de l'incapacité des deux grands partis fédéralistes canadiens, le Parti libéral du Canada et le Parti conservateur, à attirer les électeurs au Québec pour grimper dans les intentions de vote, selon un nouveau sondage Léger Marketing-Le Devoir, réalisé en partenariat avec The Gazette. (NDP is benefitting from the CPC/Lib deadlock in Quebec according to a Léger Marketing poll)
So, while it is possible, if you were on some pretty heavy drugs and lived in an alternate universe where pigs do indeed fly, Jim Flaherty is a political genius, Pierre Poilievre is known as Mr. Manners, and Baird always recycles, then maybe you can believe the Block is in cahoots with Harper in that place.
But here in a world where harper has shown contempt for distinct societies, calls official languages the failed god, mocks and trivializes the Bloc day after day, this talk is just Pat Martin trying to bleed the Bloc with a poison rumour-dagger so that the NDP can lap up the voters he thinks will drip out of the wound.
