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I have been asked, as a conservative blogger, to publicize this initiative.
Unfortunately, I cannot endorse it. Their claim is that the proposed Liberal-Bloc-NDP coalition would “overturn the results of the last election,” and that it is somehow illegitimate. It would not. It is not. The opposition plans are perfectly legal and constitutional and perfectly democratic, and I have no quarrel with them. I do not want to see the Liberals-NDP-Bloc take power, but that is a different question. I am not prepared to mess around with the Canadian constitution for partisan advantage.
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There is a significant difference between illegal and illegitimate. While forming a coalition may be within the law and in support of a just cause even admirable, this coalition is definitely not legitimate.
Consider
The Liberals explicitly eliminated the potential of a coalition with the NDP during the election campaign.
The Liberals have always posed themselves as the anti Quebec separatist party and even denigrated the Conservatives for being too close to soft nationalists.
Jack Layton insisted that he was running only for Prime Minister.
The Bloc has admitted that joining this coalition helps their mission of a separate Quebec.
Jack Layton began plotting this coalition before any attempts were made to make the current house make up succeed, having campaigned on how the NDP was the only party that made the last parliament work.
To protest this travesty of integrity is a right of Canadians and we don't need to "mess around with the Canadian constitution" to gather and express our opinion
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