Leader of the NDP, Jack Layton said that he has no plan with the Liberals and the Bloc immediately launched a motion of no confidence if the Conservatives are re-elected with another minority Government on May 2.
"There is no discussion on this subject." He [Harper] Gets the first shot. The question will be: he is willing to work with other parties? "Jack Layton said in an exclusive interview with Peter Mansbridge broadcast on Monday evening.
Throughout the campaign, Harper said it is "wrong" for the opposition parties suggest that they can form a Government without being elected, and insisted that Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff formed a coalition with the NDP and the Bloc if Canadians elect a conservative majority government.
Jack Layton said "there is no doubt" objective of Harper in 2004 speaks with his party and the Bloc québécois was to become Prime Minister.
Harper has also denied that he was trying to overthrow the Martin Government and seize power in 2004.
Jack Layton told Mansbridge that Harper is "manufacture things here". Jack Layton, said the Conservative leader, who was then the Leader of the Opposition, was the driving force for the "arrangement" with other opposition parties at the time.
"We called together by Stephen Harper to send a letter to the Governor General to clarify that if Paul Martin was beaten by the speech from the throne, it should turn to the other parties to govern," Layton said Peter Mansbridge CBC on his campaign bus near Charlottetown.
"He has no doubt that the ultimate goal here was to Stephen Harper become Prime Minister."
Address by the head of the NDP Mansbridge, corresponding to head of CBC, came while he took part in a series of ongoing interview on the national with the officers of the federal party. An interview with the Green party leader Elizabeth May was released on April 8. An interview with liberal leader Michael Ignatieff airs Tuesday, while a date has not been set for the Conservative leader Stephen Harper.
Layton said he began to have doubts on the plan of 2004 which was to be presented to the Governor General Adrienne Clarkson.
In "individual" conversation with Bloc leader, Gilles Duceppe, Layton said that he wondered whether to go ahead with the plan.
"I said 'are you ready to make Stephen Harper, Prime Minister?' and he said he is" Jack Layton said. "And I said,"well I'm not."" "
"So with that, did it collapse?". Mansbridge asked Layton.
"Also then did a not being necessary to come oomph to be," Layton said.
The interview conducted during a tour of the NDP through three provinces of the Atlantic, the end of last week touched on a number of areas, including New Democrat hopes for a surge in support from voters leading up to the day of the vote.
Various national polls Monday suggest Democrats Layton increasing their support, particularly in Quebec.
"We'll see later in the night of May 2, if we have such a quantum leap", said Layton.
"I think we are going to lay the groundwork for it."
Asked about the difference between his party and the Liberals under Michael Ignatieff, the leader of the NDP of 60 years offered a blunt demand.
"The main difference is that we will get things done." they took of commitments and then turn right and broken these commitments over and over again, "he says.
Accessibility links
没有评论:
发表评论