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Welcome to 2010 and The Further Decline of Democracy
| 1/2/2010 | Posted by Patti under Canadian Politics |
Well here we go again, the start of a new year and Harper has once again shuttered Parliament for his own partisan, butt protecting purposes. He’s trying, well actually his spokespeople since he’s too arrogant to bother addressing the people he never listens to anyways, to present this closure of parliament as ‘routine’.
One of his mouthpieces used the example of Chretien proroguing Parliament four times. He failed to note that was four times in TEN years in power. Harper has been in power FOUR years and has prorogued Parliament THREE times, twice in the last year. There is nothing routine about this flip of the bird towards the seat of our democracy.
Just what was Governor General Jean thinking when she allowed this arrogant pup to not only shut down this session but to do so over the phone? The message he sent her was clear, you are my puppet and I don’t even care enough about Canada’s democratic processes to even appear to go through the motions.
As GG, Madame Jean is also Commander in Chief of our Canadian Armed Forces, a role she appears to take rather seriously. She needs to realize that responsibility is more than inspecting or visiting troops or wearing the uniform on Remembrance Day. She has a responsibility to uphold the values of the country those men and women fight to defend.
GG Jean had the power to say ‘no’ to his ‘request’ and certainly had lots of reasons not to grant it.
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