Mader Blog has a good rebuttal of my own and similar "more time for debate" takes on the Afghanistan vote. Whether MPs needed more time for debate, in some objective sense, is an issue that can be, um, debated. But there's such a thing as courtesy as well. Had Harper taken more time, made more effort, perhaps he could have forged a broader consensus in favour of the mission, rather than going for the quick hit of dividing the Grits.