Don't try to govern 2nd place: Harper

Conservative leader Stephen Harper said that he would not attempt to form a Government if another party won a majority of seats in the elections and his party came in second place.

In an interview exclusive with CBC Peter Mansbridge was released Thursday afternoon, Harper said that if Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff or the leader of the NDP, Jack Layton, won the election, but were unable to win the confidence of the House, he would not attempt to try to take power.

"They will form the Government," said Harper.

"I think that if the other guys win, they get a shot to the Government, and I do not think that challenge you that unless you are ready to return to the people."

Harper said he rejected an offer made by the Governor General to try to form a Government.

"So you would say the Governor General," "not, would not do that?" "" ". Mansbridge was asked.

"Yes, absolutely," he said, adding that people want another election.

On the campaign trail, Harper has repeatedly warned that if his party fails to win a majority government, the opposition would work on an arrangement to seize power.

But when Mansbridge pressed Harper on if they have this right under parliamentary rules, Harper said it is a matter of constitutional law debate.

"I do not think most Canadians would still be very surprised if they elected a minority conservative and discovered that they had some completely different from the Government.". "I think that this would be a shock of people," said Harper.

"In my opinion, is that Canadians expect the party that wins the election to govern the country." I think that any other thing that the public would not buy. ?

On Tuesday, said Ignatieff Mansbridge would be willing to form a Government under parliamentary rules if Harper wins the most seats in the election but not unable to win the confidence of the House of Commons.

"If the Governor wants to call on other parties, or myself, for example, to try and form a Government, then we attempt to form a Government", said Ignatieff.

"This is exactly how the rules, and what I'm trying to say Canadians is, I understand the rules, I respect the rules, I will follow them to the letter and I'm not going to form a coalition." This I am ready to do so is to speak to Mr. Duceppe and Mr. Layton or even Mr. Harper and say, "we have a problem and here's the plan I want to put before the Parliament, it is the budget I would bring in ' and then 'We take from there. ?

Harper again rejected the charges made by Jack Layton and Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe was ready to seize du pouvoir an agreement of coalition after their arrival in the second of the Paul Martin Liberals in 2004.

Duceppe and Layton stated that the three leaders came together and wrote a letter to tell and then Governor General Adrienne Clarkson that Harper was prepared to form a Government if Martin lost the confidence of the House of Commons.

But Harper refused the intention of the letter.

"The option I was talking about is that we were trying to influence the Government program, and if we want to defeat the Government, we must get our own mandate." I never suggested otherwise. ?

Earlier Thursday, said Harper correspondence between one of the members of its staff and the Ethics Commissioner in 2009 about a possible conflict of interest involving Bruce Carson showed that his Office follows the rules of conflict of interest.

Conservative campaign officials have published two letters of 2009 late Wednesday indicating top of page help, Guy Giorno, and Harper then contacted the Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson on Carson, a former Advisor Harper, who has since accused foreign lobbying violations.

The letters warned the conflict of interest possible Commissioner, measures Prime Minister's Office had taken to resolve it and described additional measures taken to remove Carson of potential conflict in the pre-budget process.

"I think that what shows the correspondence is that my Office ensures at all times that the conflict of interest rules are applied," Harper said during a campaign in the South, N.L. Conception Bay

"They have been applied in this case, the matter has been satisfactorily resolved."

Harper not answer when asked what he knew on the correspondence with the Ethics Commissioner 2009

Office of the Prime Minister called the mounted police last month to investigate the allegations of pressure Carson may have illegally on Government in 2010 on behalf of a corporation to filter water using his girlfriend.

Carson, who had already been found guilty of the charges of fraud not related, said that he would take a leave of absence from his position as Executive Director of the base of Calgary Canada School of Energy and the environment while the RCMP probe was underway.

Research and the Organization pedagogical announced Thursday the appointment of Richard Hyndman as the Acting Director General, entered into force immediately. Carson is not mentioned in the press release.

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Top of the help page Harper has written ethics Chief on Carson

Former head of Stephen Harper's Office wrote to the ethics Federal Commissioner in 2008 on then Prime Minister Counsellor Bruce Carson, now under investigation for alleged and illegal influence peddling pressures, CBC News has learned.

Sources say CBC high aid that Harper, Guy Giorno, wrote at least two official letters on Carson to the Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson in only a few months.

Giorno is currently the Director of national election campaign of the conservatives.

Shortly after Il Giorno contacted the Commissioner ethics, sources said, a third letter on Carson was sent to Dawson, one of a Senior Deputy Minister in the Harper Government.

All three letters preceded the current problems of Carson by two years.

Last month, the Office of the Prime Minister called in the police to investigate the allegations of pressure Carson may have illegally on Government in 2010 a company of filter water using his girlfriend, a former prostitute for 22 years.

In this story, Harper and his executives all said that they had no prior idea there was nothing amiss on Carson.

Relative hail of mail to the Commissioner the ethics on Carson in 2008 adds another bizarre twist to the saga the conduct of the convicted fraudster who became one of the advisors of confidence of Harper.

The fact of two of these letters came from Harper and then Chief of staff is also bound to raise new questions about how the Prime Minister was aware of his former assistant.

Harper said that he is only aware that Carson had been sent to prison and removed from the bar as a lawyer for fraud more than 30 years.

The Prime Minister said he was under the impression Carson had become since a honest citizen with an exemplary career in politics and Government.

In fact, at the time that Carson became a Senior Advisor for Harper in 2006, he had been convicted on an another three counts of fraud, had been bankrupt twice and was several times behind his taxes up to and including the time that he worked in the Office of the Prime Minister.

Exactly what prompted former Chief of staff of Harper to communicate with the Commissioner of ethics on Carson in 2008 remains a mystery.

Giorno has not responded to requests for an interview, and the Ethics Commissioner is prohibited by law to discuss the details of this correspondence.

However, in a written response to the CBC, Dawson Jocelyne Brisbois spokesman said that in cases like this, the Commissioner would have responded directly to the author, namely Giorno.

The subject of a letter, Carson in this case, may also be copied on the correspondence "is it y utility by.".

Brisbois said: "there is no obligation for the Commissioner copy the Prime Minister."

One thing that is a secret in official circles in Ottawa in 2008 has been intense dislike of Giorno Carson.

The feeling was obviously mutual, with a long history of animosity between the two dating to their days at Queens Park.

At the time wherever giorno took over as Chief of staff in early summer 2008, Carson had been a senior advisor of Harper policy during almost four years, first in opposition, and then in the Government.

Almost immediately after the arrival of Giorno to CMP, it converts Office of Carson in a common room for junior staff members.

Carson soon left to become head of a newly created in Calgary reflection group called the Canada School of energy and the environment.

The Agency was set up as a corporation, private and fully funded by a grant from the Federal Government $ 15 million.

Carson had barely unpacked his bags in Calgary when Harper called the 2008 election and insisted his return of confidence to travel on the plan of campaign Adviser.

Sources say that it was the likely return of Carson during the campaign that triggered the first letter of Giorno Ethics Commissioner.

As soon as the campaign was over, Carson returned to Calgary to resume his position at the Institute.

But six weeks later, he was back in the PMO Advisor Harper during the crisis of the coalition who threatened to overthrow the newly elected Conservative Government.

Sources say that it is this period that giorno wrote again to the Ethics Commissioner.

Documents show Carson officially left the PMO to well about two months later, on February 4, 2009.

Carson returned to the Institute of Calgary who was supposed to be a coordinating body for clean energy research.

Almost immediately, Carson rewritten the mandate of the Agency of an Institute of research for a centre dedicated to promoting the oil sands of Alberta, and help the Harper Government to navigate on the issue of climate change politically treacherous.

Sources say that Carson was also officially hired as Advisor unpaid for the Federal Ministry of the environment.

This is the third letter on Carson landed on the Office of ethics and federal conflict of interest Commissioner.

This missive was the Deputy Minister of the environment, Ian Shugart.

He refused to comment on.

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Liberals could still govern if Harper WINS minority: Ignatieff

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, said that he would be willing to form a Government under parliamentary rules if Stephen Harper wins the most seats in the election but not unable to win the confidence of the House of Commons.

"If"the Governor wants to call on other parties, or myself, for example, to try and form a Government, then we attempt to form a Government, Ignatieff said Peter Mansbridge for CBC in an interview exclusive Tuesday afternoon."

"This is exactly how the work rules and what I'm trying to say Canadians is, I understand the rules, I respect the rules, I will follow them to the letter and I'm not going to form a coalition.". This I am ready to do so is to speak to Mr. Duceppe and Mr. Layton or even Mr. Harper and say, "we have a problem and here's the plan I want to put before the Parliament, it is the budget I would bring in ' and then 'We take from there. ?

The statement is that the nearest Ignatieff has come to describe how he could become Prime Minister since his first day of the campaign to renounce a coalition with the NDP and the Bloc Québécois.

Ignatieff, who had signed to form a coalition with the NDP supported the block when then-Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion had worked a deal three years ago, says Mansbridge that he later rejected the idea because it was not in the interest of Canadians.

"I could be sitting here and talking to you as Prime Minister and chose not to do that because I felt that it was not in the national interest," he said. "If I have dismissed the coalition in 2008 and I went into this election firmly in 2011 excluding the coalition."

"Mr. Harper had a coalition in 2004 with Mr. Duceppe and Mr. Layton discussions." Not me. ?

Shortly after the interview, the Tories back shot, issuing a statement which said Ignatieff "clearly." it is his agenda to become Prime Minister, even if he loses the election

"Michael Ignatieff ambition to be Prime Minister outweighs everything: our economic recovery, what is best for families, and even how Canadians vote,"said conservatives."."

Ignatieff has also denied he has started a negative campaign against Harper, saying that the question boils down to whether if you can trust the Conservative leader with the authority. The Liberals were forced to modify an anti-Harper announces attack on health care, after it was determined that a quotation has been attributed incorrectly to Harper.

"I think we must be very difficult, I believe that we have to frame the issues. I think that Canadians want to know what choices on 2 may, "Ignatieff said advertisements that his party is running."

"We believe that a strong campaign here is essential."

Pressed Mansbridge Ignatieff on some of the announcements of campaign, the Liberals are running, more specifically those who say Stephen Harper wants to "absolute power".

Ignatieff said Harper closes Parliament twice and held contempt of Parliament. He said that the important issue of the campaign is: "can you trust this guy with power."

"If you can not trust this man with democracy, you can be trusted with anything else," said Ignatieff.

Foundation of the Ignatieff with Mansbridge discussion is part of a series of one-on-one interviews with the leaders of the party. Harper accepted an interview at a time that has yet to be determined.

At the interview, Ignatieff rid of similarities that platform of his party may have with the NDP, saying that, unlike the Liberals table cost the NDP does not add.

But the NDP was quick to offer a rebuttal, saying their platform is not encrypted only, but also third validated.

"Unlike the platform Liberals, it is not making promises non-encrypted several billion dollars (e.g., payment of HST at Quebec, prescription drugs, high speed rail), or it does not ignore two years," the Democrats said in a statement.

"And unlike the Conservatives, it contains no reductions unidentified 11 billion from $.".

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No discussion of estate of monarchy for Harper

Conservative leader Stephen Harper speaks at a campaign event, at Yellowknife NWT, Monday. Frank Gunn/Canadian Press

Conservative leader Stephen Harper said that he is not interested in wading in a debate on whether to change the system of the Royal estate.

Critics of the Act, 300 years have used the upcoming marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton to call for an overhaul of the system of 300 years in Britain, saying: it is time to make equality of the sexes in the rules of succession of the country.

This system currently provides son automatic preference over his brothers and sisters aged females to succeed to the British Throne. This means that Middleton had a daughter and a son, the daughter would be transmitted to the wire and the son would become King when William dies or leaves his throne.

Any modification to the rule would affect the Canadian constitution and requires the support of the Canada and other countries of the Commonwealth.

John key for the New Zealand Prime Minister has already said that it supports the reform proposal.

However, when asked about the proposal during a campaign stop in the Northwest Territories Monday, Harper said that he was not the time for such a debate. He also noted the two of then successively - Prince Charles and his eldest son, Prince William - are men.

"The successor to the throne is a man," said Harper. "The next successor to the throne is a man." I do not want Canadians to open a debate on the monarchy or constitutional issues at this time.

"It is our position, and I just see that as a priority for Canadians now to all the".

Other federal party leaders have not weighed on the question.

Any legal change would not affect Charles of Princes or William, since they have more older sisters who could leapfrog if these new rules have been adopted. And the issue would be moot for another generation if the first child of Middleton was a boy.

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