When did ‘prorogue’ become fashionable again? Not just some silly little 20 day prorogue either.
Not to worry though. I understand that the Left is organizing a day of protest over this dramatic body blow to our democracy. Mansbridge is breathless. Occupy is organizing, the unions are printing up signs. Quebec has promised another referendum. TorStar, Globe & Mail and the Nat. Post have run leads for the last week…oh, wait.
It wasn’t Harper?
Never mind, didn’t happen. Nothing to see here. Move along.
But, but….that would mean the MSM is biased in its reporting.
Colour me surprised.
Actually, the left is complaining pretty much along those lines. The Ontario Liberals are too far right, you see. (Though McGuinty has been apologizing for how “badly” he treated the unions earlier this year.)
Ummmmm…maybe she should talk to the Zero.After all,he will look after her fun parts,and provide free care ala Fluke.
I’ve been thinking about this a little bit. You know why the NDPee and the Liberals win when their policies are just flat out theft with a coat of paint on it? They WORK like devils at it. They own the media because they WORKED to own the media.
We don’t do that. We just sit back and think “The Truth Shall Set You Free.”
Well, it won’t if nobody hears it. Half the population of the USA and I expect Canada too has tuned us out. They follow the media. The media doesn’t report it, it didn’t happen.
I think Kate’s 100% right. I am more and more convinced that not showing up to riot IS bad policy for Conservatives.
We all might have to get out and demonstrate in the rain like the friggin’ greenies and the other freakazoids do. We might have to spend some weekends and evenings spamming people’s phones and making a bloody nuisance of ourselves the way the Lefties do. We might have to make the cops afraid of us like the Muslims do.
Maybe a march down University Avenue to Queens Park that f-cks up all the traffic for six hours is in order. Maybe we need to bus in ten thousand pissed off Hydro rate payers and camp on Dalton’s doorstep for three weeks like the Oh We Stink OWS crowd. Maybe we should have a five hundred tractor parade down the 401 EVERY WEEK for the whole winter, let all those potential Justin Trudeau voters out there know who they’re screwing with.
Because THEY ARE EATING OUR LUNCH. Literally, the money that buys your lunch is getting taken by these parasites.
How mad are you? Mad enough to stir your sorry backside out to vote even? Mad enough to go stand in the rain and yell at the stupid b@st@rds who are taking it? Mad enough to stare down a cop?
Maybe we all need to think about that a little bit. Election coming in three years, Stevie Harper ain’t going to do it all by his lonesome.
As Kathy Shaidle says, the real story’s in the comments section.
Dated a repor…..sorry journalist. (Ha!)
Journalistic ethics 101:
– Don’t make stuff up
– Ignore any facts that contradict YOUR message (news)
As a new repor…..sorry journal-lier it’s understood that your entire body of work must sound fair, but lean left. If not, your career will be limited to talk radio etc. No chance whatsoever to “get in the show” – CBC, CTV, Global, GloMail, TorStar, NatPo.
You will be told what they want you to hear, period.
Keep yer powder dry.
Phantom:
I agree with your comments however from what I’ve observed those who generally fall into the conservative mindset are normally gainfully employed, paying their taxes and being generally a good citizen. We abhor the little snotty nose punks walking up and down the streets always asking for something. Like a virtual free education for an unlimited time period isn’t enough to the little roaches. And these miscreants get cheer-leaded by the socialist faculty. It is maddening. However, I will do my part. I think I can take a half day off next wednesday….:)
Why don’t some of you park it at your paid for with your taxpayers CBC. When you have a hard day and don’t want to cook nor pay for a dinner at the restaurant when you can get dinner for free at CBC do so.
Everyone should have a card with them to flash around:
We are CBC OWNERS
we are CBC BOSSES
CBC work for us employers.
We are the bigshots and CBC employees ARE OUR EMPLOYEES and we say ‘FIRE THOSE WE DON’T WORK, which is everyone.
PROROGUE CBC until the world ends. Or better yet, they ended already they are some where in the pit of the earth.
Prorogue? Old news. Apparently it is irresponsible the RCMP to provide security in a part of the world known for assassination of prime ministers.
The one benefit when a Liberal Government progues is they can’t do any official taking from the taxpayers. All they can do is shift around the money they have already co-opted.
I believe the Texas approach to a Legislative Assembly is the best. This is to only have a session every two years and limit that session’s length to (six?months). Cheers;
Well, since there’s nothing to do about Obamaland today, I thought I would point out a few things that I can think of about the difference between Mr. Harper’s use of prorogation and Mr. McGuinty’s.
As an aside, a friend of mine, who’s a part-time secondary school trades teacher (construction) and who’s brand new to the school, asked me a couple of weeks ago to explain what prorogation is, because it was all the rage in the staff room — and the other teachers were asking him for clarification!
I responded that it is part of the reserve power of the Crown (Crown prerogative — in fact, prorogation derives from the same root word), was exercisable by the Queen or her representative on the advice of the individual who had counter-signed the so-called “Instrument of Advice” (in the case of Canada, Stephen Harper; in the case of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty), has a limitation in terms of section 5 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, zzzzzz…
Here are the differences I can think of:
– Stephen Harper exercised it seven weeks after a general election, whereas Dalton McGuinty exercised it 12 months after a general election.
– Stephen Harper exercised it in the context of a dispute with the opposition parties (including one committed to the break-up of Canada), who had decided to work together — with no mandate from the Canadian people to do so — to try to unseat a just re-elected government, whereas Dalton McGuinty exercised it in the context of a dispute over a matter of public policy with non-parliamentary actors (Ontario’s public sector unions).
– Dalton McGuinty exercised it in the context of an impending vote — which did not occur on account of the prorogation — on a contempt of parliament charge, whereas Stephen Harper decided to allow his government to fall on a similar question, leading to a general election that returned his government with a majority.
– Dalton McGuinty exercised it in the context of his impending departure as Premier, during which remaining time he had in office he proposed to conduct secret negotiations with non-parliament actors (Ontario’s public sector unions), whereas Stephen Harper exercised it with the expressed intention of carrying on as Prime Minister on the basis of a program he had fully disclosed to the Canadian people in the immediately preceding election campaign.
Anybody have any additional ideas?
PMSH prorogued to save the country,Dalton prorogued to save his ass.
Why is it Liberals can’t be trusted anywhere near taxpayer money or with Democracy?
David, the timings. Harper used it over the holidays to give everyone a chance to talk to constituents.
Not so much in Ontario.
Sent a letter to David Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario asking him to explain how McGuinty was able to receive his permission to prorogue parliament. Let you know if I get an answer back.
As of now, Ontario has no government to lead or ruin it.
Would that McGuinty be fired out of a cannon…
David Southam @ 3:43
Sadly, enumerating differences between Harper and McGuinty will be almost as much of a turnoff as listing formal procedure.
Instead, show up to riot with three E-Z points:
1) The Harper proroguation killed Michael Ignatieff’s political career.
2) Parliaments are based on “Parliamentary Sessions”, not calendar years.
3) The opposition parties (and co-conspirators) nerd-raged point 1 by deceiving the public about point 2.