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Bob Rae Re-Writing Coalition History
September 04, 2009

Bob Rae is trying to re-write history. Yesterday, he told a radio interviewer that, “there was no Coalition with the separatists.”

Bob Rae is trying to re-write history.

Yesterday, he told a radio interviewer that, “there was no Coalition with the separatists.”

Interviewer: “You’re saying Michael Ignatieff did not sign that document with Jack Layton and Gilles Duceppe?”
Bob Rae: “No, he did not. Michael Ignatieff no never did.”
(AM 770 CHQR, September 3, 2009)

Here is the Coalition document calling on the Governor General to overturn the results of the 2008 election and install a Coalition government led by the Liberals. You can see Ignatieff’s signature clearly on it.

There was no “coalition” between the Liberals and the “separatists,” there was an agreement that the Bloc would not bring down the Liberal-NDP coalition for 2 years. Bob Rae is not lying, but I can’t say the same for the CPC.

Then there’s the bullshit “overturn the results of the 2008 election” line again. I don’t think it’s that the HarperCons don’t understand our parliamentary democracy, but that they deliberately attempt to misrepresent it, as Harper wants to be President of Canada (only with more power than the USA president).

Here’s Bob Rae’s original audio (on the right of the article).

Bob defends himself, but of course, the quote mining and attack questioning dragged the responses seen on QR77s website and Conservative.ca.

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