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Canada Liberals Will Support Harper If Budget Changes (Update3)
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By Theophilos Argitis
Jan. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Canada’s opposition Liberals, which hold the balance of power in Parliament, will support Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s budget after the government agreed to provide regular progress reports on the plan.
Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff told reporters in Ottawa he will seek to amend the budget motion to require the government to make three regular reports on its progress -- the first in March. Each of these reports would determine whether the Liberals will continue to support the government.
“We are putting this government on probation,” Ignatieff, 61, said. “This budget does not include one word about accountability.”
Harper’s government lacks a majority of seats in Parliament and needs backing from at least one of the country’s three opposition parties to pass yesterday’s budget and remain in power. The other two opposition parties -- the New Democrats and Bloc Quebecois -- have both indicated they will vote against the fiscal plan.
Jay Hill, the Conservative lawmaker responsible for legislative affairs, told reporters the government accepts the conditions. “We’re pleased the Liberals have decided to support our budget,” Hill told reporters. “It does nothing we don’t normally do which is report back to Parliament.”
Coalition ‘Dead’
Backed by labor unions, the Liberals and the two other opposition parties last month agreed to form a coalition to defeat Harper in a bid to speed up infrastructure spending and help manufacturers. Under the terms of the alliance, the Liberals and the New Democratic Party would form a government supported by the separatist Bloc Quebecois on key votes.
Ignatieff today said he wouldn’t “exclude” the possibility of forming a coalition in the future if needed, though Liberal lawmaker Denis Coderre told reporters separately the alliance was “dead.”
Asked whether the Liberal Party’s support of the budget marks the end of the coalition, New Democratic Party Leader Jack Layton declined to comment on what he called a “hypothetical” question.
“We have a new coalition -- Mr. Harper and Mr. Ignatieff,” Layton said in Ottawa.
The budget, released yesterday by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, projects C$84.9 billion ($70.3 billion) in deficits over five years to revive the world’s eighth-largest economy.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=ahsu3K.OkA3Q&refer=canada
Canada Liberals Will Support Harper If Budget Changes (Update3)
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By Theophilos Argitis
Jan. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Canada’s opposition Liberals, which hold the balance of power in Parliament, will support Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s budget after the government agreed to provide regular progress reports on the plan.
Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff told reporters in Ottawa he will seek to amend the budget motion to require the government to make three regular reports on its progress -- the first in March. Each of these reports would determine whether the Liberals will continue to support the government.
“We are putting this government on probation,” Ignatieff, 61, said. “This budget does not include one word about accountability.”
Harper’s government lacks a majority of seats in Parliament and needs backing from at least one of the country’s three opposition parties to pass yesterday’s budget and remain in power. The other two opposition parties -- the New Democrats and Bloc Quebecois -- have both indicated they will vote against the fiscal plan.
Jay Hill, the Conservative lawmaker responsible for legislative affairs, told reporters the government accepts the conditions. “We’re pleased the Liberals have decided to support our budget,” Hill told reporters. “It does nothing we don’t normally do which is report back to Parliament.”
Coalition ‘Dead’
Backed by labor unions, the Liberals and the two other opposition parties last month agreed to form a coalition to defeat Harper in a bid to speed up infrastructure spending and help manufacturers. Under the terms of the alliance, the Liberals and the New Democratic Party would form a government supported by the separatist Bloc Quebecois on key votes.
Ignatieff today said he wouldn’t “exclude” the possibility of forming a coalition in the future if needed, though Liberal lawmaker Denis Coderre told reporters separately the alliance was “dead.”
Asked whether the Liberal Party’s support of the budget marks the end of the coalition, New Democratic Party Leader Jack Layton declined to comment on what he called a “hypothetical” question.
“We have a new coalition -- Mr. Harper and Mr. Ignatieff,” Layton said in Ottawa.
The budget, released yesterday by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, projects C$84.9 billion ($70.3 billion) in deficits over five years to revive the world’s eighth-largest economy.