{"id":568,"date":"2005-12-17T00:12:19-05:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-17T05:12:19+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/17\/cant-we-all-just-get-along"},"modified":"2005-12-17T00:12:19-05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-17T05:12:19+00:00","slug":"cant-we-all-just-get-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2005\/12\/17\/cant-we-all-just-get-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Can’t we all just get along?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of live blogging of tonight’s English-language debate. I’m going to link to Antonia Zerbisias’s<\/a> since it’s the only one I’ve read since watching the debate. (Despite being a geek—or perhaps because of it—I watched the debate slightly time-shifted and without attempting to multitask.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n

I’ve got several things to add to the various comments that have been made, but one stands out. To my surprise I agreed most with Gilles Duceppe’s comments during the discussion of civility: I believe that any responsible government, be it a majority or a minority, owes it to voters to work with all<\/em> of their representatives, not just those in the same party; similarly, the parties that don’t form the government need to work with the party that does. To that end, it was very<\/em> interesting to note that only once (perhaps twice, I’ll need to check) did any leader admit to agreeing with another, and that was Stephen Harper’s unfortunate<\/q> agreement with Paul Martin that Canada’s strength is its people. Perhaps I’m just naive, but I wanted to see more acknowledgement of their similarities on issues than the leaders were willing to concede.<\/p><\/div>

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