Treason, plain and simple

they want Canadians to wait for 2 months before any solutions are presented (when parliament returns Jan 26 09).

This is above and beyond ridiculous.

revolution or coup d'etat anyone?

As I keep saying over and over.It changes nothing.It is simply do you want to get screwed sitting or standing.
Either way, Canadian politics just got slimier in my opinion.
What about the economy from now til Jan???This all started bcuz of the economy issue and now we have our hands tied til Jan.
Great work Canadian politicians!!

Well, if it weren't for Stephane Dion whining about losing the election and plotting his revenge, we wouldn't be in this mess.

Dion wanted to stop parliament all together and turn it into a darn cabinet of 25 decision makers... people we have no vote on.

The only alternative is to shut down parliament for a month.


And it's ALL Dion's fault!

We voted, he wants to ignore the votes, and now our government has to be suspended for a month while they sort out Dion's mess.

I hope the Liberal party gives him the boot for this mess... and a good old "Don't come back."

I mean how can so much power be given to the GG when it's supposed to merely a ceremonial position.

How can the ability to throw away the peoples vote be given to minor parties in Parliament?


There are allot of changes that are going to occur I think...

1. I think they'll make it law that you cannot switch nor join parties during a term. No document to the effect of a unified voice is to be considered binding.

2. Yeah, I think some will seek to have the Governor General position removed... but in this case, she just saved our backsides from having a non-representative un-elected government.

3. We the people need another tool at our disposal to voice our input into such matters.
If someone tries to get away with this form of illegal takeover again, and the governor general isn't here anymore... then there's not a darn thing we the people can do about it.


As for the economy. Nobody had a plan anyways, Harper's plan was being shot at by the Liberals... and yet the liberals didn't even have a plan themselves.

So one month without parliament, or with... there still wouldn't have been an economic plan pushed through.

[edit on 4-12-2008 by johnsky]

Originally posted by warrenb
Treason, plain and simple

they want Canadians to wait for 2 months before any solutions are presented (when parliament returns Jan 26 09).

This is above and beyond ridiculous.

revolution or coup d'etat anyone?

You want to talk ridiculous, that coalition was ridiculous. What plans did they have to help out the economy? I have yet to hear about anything that they had planned at all. So if Harper is to be taken to task for his lack of planning, how about the Three Stooges? Tell me about any kind of plan they had, and I might give them some credence, until then, they are no better.

Did this group have a budget ready to be presented? Probably not, so we would have to wait for them to draw one up and present it. So we are still looking at the same time frame for these people to come up with any solutions.

Take off your Harper blinders and see that the solution that was presented was no better than what we have now, if not worse. What will it cost the country to put this coalition into power? Nothing comes for free.

What will come of this ? Simple , nothing . People will continue to support there party of choice believing that there party of choice is the only party able to " save us " .
Will this be enough to drive one party to a majority government if the budget is voted down in Jan ? Probably not .
Soon the liberals will pick a new leader and he will be cut from the same cloth as all the others and he will do the same as all the others and continue the political grandstanding . The dribble that comes from our so called leaders has become a white noise in the back ground of our day to day lives and those that think one party is better then another is really missing the point to what is going on .

It's got to be a sign of things when one feels "safer" knowing the government has their hands tied and won't be able to do anything for 2 months, because, for governments, "doing something" usually means doing something s t u p i d
geesh!
Anyway, what was it? more than 60% voted other than conservative? so a coalition would in fact be representative of the will of the people. In a climate of such ill will between people of different political parties, I am happy to see no party with a clear majority. Where's the Green representation?? Their presence in parliament would help even more.

Originally posted by wayno
Anyway, what was it? more than 60% voted other than conservative? so a coalition would in fact be representative of the will of the people.

This is not at all the will of the people. It is the will of stupid Party line and divisiveness. The MPs are elected to represent the wishes of the people, not those of the Party. No person voted for a Liberal/NDP mixed government. I know alot of people who voted something other than Conservative, that are outraged by this. The leaders can decide to put together this coalition, but I strongly believe that the MPs must ask their constituents what they would like before putting their support behind this coalition. If the people are behind it, then and only then does this coalition have the support and confidence of the House, not before.

Harper did his job... doing this will sure help crashing our economy. Our economy was ``protected`` from the international crisis to some point, now adding political instability is the worse thing he could have done. Good job Harper bringing down our economy so we can enter the North American Union.

Also here in Quebec, we have elections on monday. That move by Harper may give the power to the Parti Québécois, the separatist party... and if the madness continues, will likely give us a new referendum with a slim majority for it...

If that's happen, but I doubt it very much, it will be hellish... back in 95, it would have put canadians and US troops in Quebec to stop us from seceding... which would probably have turned to civil war. It's the worse that can happen, secession then civil war, highly unlikely.

The best that can happen... elections in february with one party gaining a majority. But we'll probably have elections in february with another minority government.

Since this suspension of parliement happened, our dollar fell about 2 cents against the US dollar.

[edit on 4-12-2008 by Vitchilo]