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<strong>Written By:</strong> sthompson
<strong>Date:</strong> 2005-05-14 13:31:21
<a href="/article/113121416-the-ndp-takes-the-high-roadagain">Article Link</a>

From <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/05/13/harper-house050513.html?ref=rss">cbc</a>: <P> The practice, known as "pairing," has been occasionally used in the past when voting margins are tight. If an MP from one party can't be in the House of Commons for a pressing personal reason, an MP from an opposing party will agree to stay away from the vote as well, as a courtesy. <P> Conservative Darrel Stinson is scheduled to undergo cancer surgery on Wednesday and would not be available to vote the next day. <P> "I think it's a very generous and honourable offer," Harper said shortly after the opposition members of Parliament closed down the House of Commons for the third day. <P> Also, as CBC also reports, after bringing Parliament to a standstill for a few days trying to get the Libs to call a vote on Monday rather than Thursday the 19th, the Cons and their separatist allies have finally relented and say they'll show up to work now that they have it in writing that the vote will come Thursday. <P> It's still uncertain whether they'll win, but if they do it'll be an election call.

   

Ed Broadbent should think more about preventing an election than being a nice guy.

   

Another happy Liberal...

   

Well call me crazy, but I think the NDP has been trying to get work done in parliament, and Ed is not only being a nice guy, but he shows real statemanship and integrity. If the other parties showed half as much class, we could have a government that governed instead of lusting after power. You get a sense of a group of school children saying, it's my ball and I make the rules or I'm not playing. But the reality is, we didn't send them there to play, we sent them to work, cooperatively, for all Canadians.

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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

   

And that says it all for me. NDP keeps this up and they may just be a party to be reconed with next time around. Always did like Broadbents style, he will be a great loss to our parliment. Hope he gets to be a commentator on TVOs Studio 2 or similar!

(Rural)

   

Oh please. It's about power, and Ed is betraying his party's constituents.

   

His party does not have constituents, individial MPs have constituents.

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Every time you complain about the moderators, god kills a kitten.

   

Ed Broadbent is a total idiot. By sitting out the budget vote he is all but insure that the governemnt would fall and Canadians would have to go to the polls less than a year before the last one. It is shameful. And for Layton to support that shows the NDP is as stupid as the conservatives. No wonder my leader David Orchard doesn't want to do anything with them. And let's not forget that Broadbent betrayed all Canadians in the 80's when he did not oppose the NAFTA agreement and along with Mulroney and his cronies handed Canada to the USA.

   

David Orchard doesn't even have a party. I also wonder if the NDP is completly opposed to NAFTA but they are our only hope. They are the only ones who were questioning the stupidity of deep intergration and that the Liberals have no problem using cheap labour when it come to this countries national symbols.I will vote NDP and let's hope more this upcoming election do so too.

   

I know Jack has said there are problems with NAFTA, but as far as I know, CAP is the only party to come right out and say, we need to abrogate it, now! I hope that will become a major issue in this next campaign, and if enough CAP candidates get the word out, it may force others to ask the question, and all candidates will have no choice but to address it.

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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

   

I completly agree with you. I'm pretty sure the green party has come out and said it too but the reason I'm voting NDP is because they would be the best hope of getting out of NAFTA. They would be the party that would listen to people concerned about this country and becoming the 51st state of America.
Anyways good luck with your party. The CAP is a positive thing for Canada!

   

Hold on - I am a CAPer too, but the Greens do also talk about doing away with NAFTA - and Susan can correct me but there are some NDPers who also want the same. Now that I think of it, so do a few Progressive Canadian Party members.

Too bad there are not enough in power thinking the same.

   

Whatever Jesse. Ed Broadbent was elected to vote in these types of situations. How stupid is this party? Talk about egalitarian.

   

The reason that the NDP will not take a strong stand on NAFTA is that the auto workers union and other labour unions believe that their jobs are dependent on the agreement. Since unions have considerable control over the party, the leadership is powerless to take a strong stand even if they wanted to.

   

<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/05/13/harper-house050513.html">http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/05/13/harper-house050513.html</a><br />
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Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has agreed to an offer made by NDP member of Parliament Ed Broadbent, who said he would sit out the budget vote on May 19 to negate the absence of one of Harper's MPs who has cancer. <br />
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He has.............<p>---<br>RickW

   

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