Our pro-rogue(d) PM

Yeah I realize that there is a LOT to cover lately in politics, but to be honest, I don’t even know where to start. In fact it’s taken me about a week just to start typing something about it. So let me try and be coherent and logical.

First let’s begin with the list of reasons Stevie Harper has chosen to prorogue our parliament again. This list is by no means definitive as every day the Cons or MSM come up with new reasons. Who knows if these reasons are legit or not but it’s what is being floated around:

1) So he can stack the senate with CRAP supporters once the current Lib appointed senators retire

2) To run from the Afghan detainee scandal

3) According to him: to help the economy (not sure how them not working and being paid helps the economy)

4) According to him: so that he doesn’t have to deal with the peskiness of being accountable and working with other parties

5)To focus on the budget

6) So that his government doesn’t face any heat during the Olympics (like a true Dictator!)

Here’s my opinion:

He thought he could get away with this but he was wrong. He does want to run from the Afghan detainee issue because they did screw this one up and the Opposition was not going to let him get away with it this time. He also wants to start selling this upcoming budget, which I am sure will have plenty of poison pills. At which point, the House could fall and we’d have an election, just as he wants (or should he?).

He realizes that whoever causes an election this spring will take the fall for it from the voters. He could be right on this or he could be wrong, I think it will depend on the mood of the country (currently angry at him) and how bad this budget is.

Let’s not forget the last reason: to look good during the Olympics. Didn’t the Chinese restrict the press during their Olympics? Aren’t the Chinese a communist country? Isn’t proroguing a democratically elected parliament during the Olympics in order to run and hide from an Afghan detainee scandal, similar to what the Chinese did?  Just wondering. Either way, it points to him being very controlling and in my opinion, acting like a dictator.

Most importantly he does want to stack the senate with his CRAPpers because that way he can pass WHATEVER HE WANTS. Scary, very scary.

This quote alone should scare any sane Canadian who has more than 1/2 a brain cell:

In an interview on BNN yesterday, the Prime Minister suggested that prorogation gives him the opportunity to do the serious business of the nation without the distractions of democracy – Commons committees and having to answer those pesky questions from opposition MPs in Question Period.

Oh wow, I’m so sorry Harper, that as an elected MP and leader of the Cons (i.e.PM), you must deal with accountability and transparency. May I remind you, that you have campaigned on those 2 characteristics in the past 2 elections (2005/2006 and 2008, in case you need a reminder Stevie). I am so sorry that you feel our democracy and parliament distracts you from getting work done. If that is the case why you are an MP? Or worse, PM? If you can’t handle the job, get out.

Again Stevie, I’d like to bring up some quotes from your past, in case you have forgotten what your job and our democracy is all about:

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.
Stephen Harper

It’s the government’s obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.
Stephen Harper

And I think the real problem that we’re facing already is that the government doesn’t accept that it got a minority.
Stephen Harper

Maybe you should remember those quotes Mr.Harper. Maybe it will help you to govern as an elected official. Need I remind you, that as a Canadian citizen, I am one of your employers, and most of us are not happy that you have chosen to prorogue government yet again.

I can only hope that this leads to your downfall. Make no mistake, the day you are no longer PM I will do a dance like no other in the streets of this country, for it will mark the return of our country returning to its progressive roots and no longer being regressive and seen negatively across the world.