First full week of campaigning; Coalition concerns continue to be Tory war cry
Posted Mar 28, 2011 7:42 am.
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OTTAWA – Conservatives are flooding their Twitter pages with further warnings of a coalition between the Liberals, Bloc Québécois and NDP.
Debates over definition of a coalition are dominating, while Stephen Harper rejects Michael Ignatieff’s claim to not wanting to form a coalition government.
“They did it before, they’ll do it again, and next time they will make sure there is no way to stop them.”
“What he [Ignatieff] said is this, that he can form a government with the backing of the NDP and the Bloc Québécois, even if he loses the election,” said Harper.
Harper and his supporters continue to cascade Twitter messages, warning against the notion of a coalition as the alternative to a majority government.
Ignatieff told 680News Sunday that he would not be forming any coalition.
“We said no to a coalition. We can work with other parties, but we are not going to create a coalition government,” said Ignatieff.
A new leger poll for The Sun finds that most people (up to 56 per cent) do not believe Michael Ignatieff’s policy pledge to not form a coalition government if the Tory’s do not get a majority — that was a pledge he repeated to 680News again yesterday.
Michael Ignatieff campaigns in Toronto and Mississauga on Monday, Jack Layton moves into Regina, while Stephen Harper spends the day in Vancouver and Calgary.
