In 2008, after the Conservatives tried to remove the per-voter subsidy for federal political parties, then Liberal leader Stéphane Dion was nearly installed as prime minister, propped up by the NDP and the Bloc Québécois. It was a perfectly legitimate move constitutionally, but it was untenable. Dion had just lost a general election and the Bloc wanted to break up the country, so the effort lacked public support. The coalition fell apart and Dion was succeeded by Michael Ignatieff, who saw it as an illegitimate power grab.