Among the issues discussed Tuesday evening by the leaders was the reason why that the four of them were standing around in this room for two hours, in the first place.
In other words, why exactly we we having an election anyway?
Canadians are confused and therefore the rest of the world, according to conservative leader Stephen Harper.
"What the world is watching now and said, [is] Canada s got the highest recovery of all countries on Earth, and suddenly, it plunged into a fourth election in seven years and Canadians do not know why." Canadians don't know why we do this, "he says.
Then he tried to shed light on the matter and say Canadians why we are going to make a choice: "we will make an election because the three other political parties have had the opportunity to go after the Government".
Step so, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff replied. Here is his explanation of why the Canadians go to the polls on May 2: "" you stiffed Parliament Mr. Harper, and this is why your Government has lost confidence, this is why we are going to make a choice. ""
In his view, the cause of the election is no great mystery to voters: "Canadians know exactly why we're having an election." We will make an election because you did not say Parliament truth on budget fees, on one of the numbers, they have become incredible... Finally the confidence of the whole Parliament has been lost, this is why we are going to make a choice. ?
We have therefore two different versions of the events of Harper and Ignatieff on how we wound up in another election campaign.
"Harper says that he was nothing more that opportunistic political by the Liberals, NDP and Bloc québécois who intended to bring his Government down, while Ignatieff says that this is because Harper" did not tell the truth to Canadians,."because you abused democracy
The two leaders will have to agree to disagree, but which cannot be discussed is that what technically triggered the election was the motion of no confidence passed in the House of Commons in the afternoon of Friday, March 25.
The meaning of the contempt
This motion asked deputies agreed with the report of the Standing Committee on procedure and Affairs of the House who concluded that the Government was in contempt, and "as a result, the House has lost confidence in the Government."
The three opposition parties voted for the motion, the Conservatives voted against. He spent, and that is why we are in an election.
Harper he says himself in the debate: "have you had more votes than we." He rejected "the so-called contempt" as "simply a case of three other parties against us."
Harper was probably due to the call a so-called contempt, because it was actually a motion of censure which brought down his Government.
The motion of no confidence, however, is based on a finding of contempt - by a Committee, not by Parliament.
For its part, Ignatieff was too much to say in the debate that Harper was considered contempt of Parliament by the President of the Chamber of the common "twice."
Harper himself was not found guilty of contempt, nor President Peter Milliken any issuing these findings of contempt - it may not. Only members can find mutual contempt by asking Parliament to support a vote on such a conclusion to the House of Commons.
Two decisions
The Conservatives have been losing on two decisions made by the President when he determined, there were cases "prima facies" privileges of Deputies failed to, one involving the Bev Oda/Kairos funding case; the other believes that the refusal of the Government to provide spending for its proposed crime legislation among other things.
These decisions finally opened the way for the Commission find the Government to disregard, thereby triggering the query that eventually it brought down.
Why is this Committee found the Government of contempt? It is a long enough history, dragged over several months.
To make this very short story: essentially the opposition parties have begun asking the Government to fall last for the estimation of the costs on the invoices of crime, the F-35 fighter jet procurement and tax cuts.
As a first step, the Government argued that it could not disclose the information because it was protected under what is known as the confidence of the cabinet or, as it is sometimes called him, executive privilege.
But opposition parties have not abandoned, and after much procedural wrangling, the Government has started sharing some numbers, although it was too little, too late for the opposition.
The Conservatives say that they have always given opposition parties the information they wanted, but all three opposition parties say that is not true and that conservatives try to retain the true costs of their policies for Canadians.
They will have to agree to disagree on this front too.
The bottom line of all this we will make an election because the majority of members voted for a motion that said confidence had been lost in the Government, because a Committee had found him guilty of contempt.
A Canadian Government has never been found in contempt of court, but Harper does not give much weight to a finding that could go down in history books.
It tends to ignore off, as he did in the debate: "first of all, everyone should realize the so-called contempt Mr. Ignatieff speaks of is not a decision of a court or a decision taken by the President, is simply a case of three other parties against us." We agree to that. ?
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