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[AgentM]

The NDP will align itself with the Conservatives in order to pass a Tory plan to extend employment insurance for long-tenured workers � a move that could rule out an election in the near future.

But NDP Leader Jack Layton cautioned that this would not be a blank cheque of support for the Tories and warned the government it must work to keep his party's support by not proposing any legislation that would alienate the NDP.

"You know, I can't really make any predictions, because it all depends on what comes forward, we're going to take things on a case by case basis," Layton said.

The NDP will join with Bloc Qu�b�cois to support the Conservatives financial ways-and-means motion to be introduced on Friday. The motion, which includes the popular tax credits for home renovation, is considered a confidence issue and its defeat could trigger an election.

But the NDP will also support the proposed EI reforms and will vote for the measures in order to get them into a parliamentary committee, which can be a lengthy process.

That means the party would refrain from voting the government down on any other confidence motion that would trigger an election, including a Liberal no-confidence motion expected the first week of October.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/09/16/ndp-election-tories.html
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It's kinda funny that the Tories are being propped up by the very "Socialists" and separatists that they rail against.

[Moldy Rutabaga]

The Tories are not Republicans -- the Canadian political parties are all pretty much a soft mash of grey, and their ideological positions are not so far apart. Typically, we vote along geographic lines and not ideological ones. Everyone on the prairies votes Conservative. Everyone in Quebec votes Bloc. Everyone in the center and atlantic votes Liberal. BC is a rare province which changes allegiances!

So I'm not surprised to see the NDP make deals with the devil -- they did with Trudeau's Liberals in the 70s too. Again, Ignatieff has bluffed to get himself in the news and then his threats have come to nothing.

Ken:>

[gakduki]

I think the NDP are just putting themselves in a posistion to look like they tried to save Canada from another election. If the government collapses in a month from now, Layton will say "Well we tried to avoid this, its the Liberals and Tories fault, vote for a new option!"
Seriously speaking, If you look at the past 100 years, Liberals have had power most of the time, helping Canada to become the great nation it is today. The Conservatives get elected when the Liberals have been in for too long and start getting lay or corrupt, and it goes back to it. Only fools vote for the NDP they would absoltely destroy the countries finances and make it a haven for bums and losers, while ignoring the concept of hardwork and self-reliance. The NDP's only care about the bottom of the barrel and it seems the Conservatives love their rednecks and some of the upper elite. I like how they are giving Iggy a hard time, but we all know there will eventually be another Liberal majority soon enough. Probably not this election, but the next one for sure.

[AgentM]