tory definition of "undemocratic"

In the most recent fiscal update, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty included a controversial measure that was set to strip all political parties of public funding. The Conservatives went further by saying that the measure would be a matter of confidence. All three opposition parties proceeded to retaliate by threatening to form a coalition government instead forcing an election. When the Tories started to sense that the opposition parties were not joking around, they quickly flip flopped on the measure by apparently pushing its introduction to a later date.

PMO Communications Director Kory Teneycke then had the nerves to say that he's surprised "the opposition parties would act in such an undemocratic fashion". I question how the conservatives define the term "undemocratic". The incumbent governing party always has a fundraising advantage over its opposition opponents. The existence of public subsidies for enables ALL parties to keep the government accountable, run proper campaigns, and to uphold the principle of democracy. By taking them away, the opposition parties will be at a huge disadvantage. Now that is what I call undemocratic.

By disguising this measure as fiscal prudence is utterly disgusting, political and highly partisan. If the Conservatives had been more fiscally prudent from beginning instead playing retail-politics with economically-null policies like the GST cuts, maybe we wouldn't be in this situation.

If the opposition parties are to form a coalition government, I would be highly supportive of it. Each and every single opposition MP from the Liberal, NDP and Bloc parties were elected democratically in the exact same way Conservative members were elected. Unlike Teneycke, I think it is extremely "democratic" for these elected members to band together to stop such a corrosive and divisive government.