NDP leader Jack Layton has joined the chorus of opposition parties that have vowed not to support the budget should a newly elected Conservative minority government try to table the same one it did before it was brought down.
“I can’t see voting for the same thing we voted against just weeks ago,” he said, adding he’s hopeful the Tories won’t be returned to govern as a minority or a majority.
“This isn’t a man that you can trust when it comes to many of the key issue that concern Canadians today and it’s not a government that you can count on to stand up for you if your family is trying to get by.”
Last week Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff said he wouldn’t vote for the same budget that finance minister Jim Flaherty vowed to re-introduce, touching off concerns about an endless cycle of elections in the event of another Conservative minority.
Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe later said he wouldn’t vote for it even if the Tories honoured the province’s $2.2-billion HST request because he simply doesn’t see eye-to-eye with the Conservatives’ fiscal plan.
The Harper government was ultimately brought down on a non-confidence motion after being found in contempt of parliament for not releasing cost breakdowns for its policies.
Opposition parties, however, announced they did not approve of the budget and were prepared to vote against it which also would have triggered an election.
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