Hey there Canada.
Are you enjoying the vibrant parliamentary debates going on over the contentious issues facing our country? No? Me either.
The current government is running legislation through the House Fire-Hose of Commons faster than the particles being smashed at the LHC. Again, let me extend my heartfelt thanks to southern Ontario voters who just couldn’t vote for the NDP or the Liberals and held their nose and voted for the Conservatives. Good show, honest. I didn’t want our government to have to deal with those troublesome encumbrances like parliamentary debate or oversight or heck, even sombre second though. That whole compromise “thing” is completely out of date in the 21st century.
I honestly do not know which is worse; the partisan gridlock in the US or the inscrutable rule by Omnibus bill here.
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January 19, 2013 at 1:23 pm
Bedelia Bloodyknuckle
Yeah and Harper also repealed some of the sections of the Hate Crime bill and the white supremacists are jizzing all over it.
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January 19, 2013 at 4:10 pm
bleatmop
Meh, like the debate has ever meant anything in a majority government. The opposition parties can still take their message directly to the media. They just need to start the meme of calling the conservatives corrupt and unaccountable now. Then in an election or two they can see the gains. It’s what the CPC did to the LPC (and rightly so I might add) and it seems to have worked well. Five straight elections of less popular vote and less seats in the commons for the LPC.
The other parties in Canada need to wake up and smell the roses. Otherwise we’ll be looking at another decade or two of CPC rule.
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