Monday, December 1, 2008<\/p>\n
To our fellow citizens,<\/p>\n
Canada is facing a global economic crisis. Since the recent federal election, it has become clear that the government headed by Stephen Harper has no plan, no competence and, no will to effectively address this crisis. Therefore, the majority of Parliament has lost confidence in Mr. Harper\u2019s government, and believes that the formation of a new Government that will effectively, prudently, promptly and competently address these critical economic times is necessary.<\/p>\n
The contrast between the inaction of Mr. Harper\u2019s government and the common action taken by all other Western democracies is striking. We cannot accept this.<\/p>\n
A majority of Canadians and Quebecers voted for our parties on October 14, 2008. Our Members of Parliament make up 55 percent of the House of Commons.<\/p>\n
In light of the critical situation facing our citizens, and the Harper government\u2019s unwillingness and inability to address the crisis, we are resolved to support a new government that will address the interests of the people.<\/p>\n
Today we respectfully inform the Governor General that, as soon as the appropriate opportunity arises, she should call on the Leader of the Official Opposition to form a new government, supported as set out in the accompanying accords by all three of our parties.<\/p>\n
Respectfully,<\/p>\n
Hon. St\u00e9phane Dion
Leader, the Liberal Party of Canada<\/p>\n
Hon. Jack Layton
Leader, the New Democratic Party of Canada<\/p>\n
Gilles Duceppe
Leader, the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois<\/p>\n
UPDATE:<\/em><\/strong> Full details of the Liberal-NDP accord<\/a>, and of the three party policy framework<\/a> can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Monday, December 1, 2008 To our fellow citizens, Canada is facing a global economic crisis. Since the recent federal election, it has become clear that the government headed by Stephen Harper has no plan, no competence and, no will to effectively address this crisis. Therefore, the majority of Parliament has lost confidence in Mr. Harper\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}