the liberals could, of course, just say "fuck it. we're having an election.", but canadians tend to punish sitting governments when they do shit like that.

so, the way this is done in our system of government is that they purposefully present a bill the opposition can't support, then blame it on the opposition when they don't support it.

this particular bill was crafted with large amounts of input from the ndp, so it should pass - unless the liberals change it at the last minute, which is always possible.

but, what they're signalling is that the next one won't be so collaborative, and they're trying to lose support of the ndp.

the ndp has to eat it - for a while, until they get a budget. well, unless it's so bad they can campaign on it, i guess.