Fail Video: Just what was the 2008 'coalition'?
Categories: Coalition Stephen Harper
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has been saying since the campaign began that the three opposition parties are planning to form a coalition government, as they tried to do in December 2008.
But as Keith Boag reports, only two parties were party to the coalition agreement in 2008: the Liberals and the NDP.
The Bloc's role in this arrangement was for something else, not to be part of the government.
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