The Hook

Funny how a coalition that

Funny how a coalition that uses every tool available to them in parliamentary system is just, fair and noble but a PM who uses the tools available to him is a coward and making up rules.

Just wonderful, NOT

guess that now we shall see a slew of appointments to the senate?
Harper knows it is his last chance to make changes and he will use every opportunity to screw up the future for us!
It is like dealing with a criminal, they get the full benefit of the law and all we can do is to smile and accpet it.

Throne Speech First?

Harper has ended one session of Parliament and fixed a date for the opening of a new session. He says the first order of business will be a budget. But my understanding of the rules of Parliament is that a new session opens with a Throne Speech--which only underscores the bogus grounds for proroguing the current session.

Harper should be defeated on the Throne Speech and the GG should then refuse his request for a dissolution. In the meantime, the Coalition need only bide its time. Harper has received a 7-week stay of execution.

When editorials in right of

When editorials in right of center newspapers talk about the Conservatives dropping Harper for someone else, the writing is on the wall. The GG has given him the rope to hang himself. Frazer Institute here comes another right wing loser. The first vote of non confidence should do the trick. Then Steveboy will ask for an election as anoter delay. He forgets he has a minority right now, the odds of a majority faded when he in desperation lied a number of times lately. He can pretty well forget Quebec as a place to find members.He has lost the confidence of the house and a lot of voters

Layton Should be Prime Minister

As much as I love my mother's homeland, this is not Italy and Canadians will not tolerate a 4th election in 5 years.

When a coalition is finally in power, Jack Layton should be Prime Minister. Sure the NDP don't have as many seats in the House as the Liberals do, and maybe I'm not as up on the rules as others (correct me if a coalition's leader must be selected from the party with the most seats in the House), but while the Liberals are in a leadership vacuum (the party couldn't wait to dump Dion about a week ago and now they're calling him the next PM, and Ignatief and Rae both LOST to Dion in the party's last leadership vote so why are their names even being mentioned), Layton is the most popular party leader in Canada by a wide margin and the kind of person who can lay the groundwork for a less partisan government. He is also leader of the only elected Federal party with a pull out of Afghanistan policy, one that complements the desire of a majority of Canadians.

It's been amusing watching the range of emotions photographers have captured on Harper's face over the past week, from his usual smugness prior to the call for a non-confidence vote, to his nauseated self-humiliation of three days ago, to yesterday's blowhard death pangs of an unintentional political suicide victim, and finally to his crying to mommy today, an official who incidentally has a domestic position and shouldn't be flying back to Canada from Slovenia or anywhere else at taxpayers' expense.

I take back what I said about Italy. At least there the government has truly cracked down on organized crime, jailing mafioso kingpins and their underbosses in bunches the way Harper has said he would for God knows how long, yet still allows our banks to annually launder tens of billions of dollars in profits from heroin grown in a place we've been fighting a war in seven years without so much as a slap on the wrist.

This whole country is so corrupt I wonder why I even bother paying attention sometimes.