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Online Noise or Springboard to Action?
| 1/7/2010 | Posted by Patti under Canadian Politics |
I’ve been watching a group on Facebook for the last couple of days called Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament. The group was formed on December 30th in response to Harper proroguing parliament the second time in a year. On Tuesday (Jan 5th) the group had just over 20,000 members, as of this writing it has surpassed 80,000.
A second group for coordinating the location of rallies across the country on January 23rd is also up and running. Offline planning meetings for some of the projected rallies are currently scheduled.
Discussion on the CAPP group is steady and lively. While some are simply demanding the MPs get back to work (aka back into Parliament) some are putting forth some very reasoned thoughts about how continued abuse of our Parliamentary system can be reigned in. Ideas about perceived needs for reform of various aspects of our Parliamentary institution.
People in the group are reporting on their attempts to contact their MPs, especially their Conservative MPs, to voice their displeasure. Most are being met with the party line that this suspension of parliament is just routine business and that the citizen who contacted them to express their will is misguided and misinformed. The arrogance of the leader has apparently rubbed off on those who follow him.
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