The Governor-General prorogued Parliament giving the Politicians a chance to take a breath and reflect on their actions. Everyone of the elected Members of Parliament need to shake their heads and realize that they should be ashamed of their behaviour. No one is exempt from this shameful demonstration of power politics. Canadians in general are not amused and are disgusted by their actions. A pox on all their houses.
The Prime Minister initiated the troubles with his ill thought out plan to kick the opposition when they were down. His misjudgement has probably damaged his reputation forever. He has done enough damage to the Conservative cause that they will never achieve a majority government under his leadership. It’s time to groom the replacements.
The Leaders of the three opposition parties needs to have a reality check. Yes, if you add up all their votes and all their members they outnumber the Conservatives but there is no consistency in their party policies that would justify saying that they represent a majority view. They are 3 distinct views that are barely similar and often opposed to each other. So saying that they represent a majority of Canadians is invalid. The Liberals under Stephane Dion are desperate for power since they lost it, but they lost it for a reason and they haven’t corrected that reason. They haven’t cleaned up their act like the Conservative had to when they were down to 3 seats. There is little contrition for the bad faith they showed Canadians under the various scandals and little cleanup. Stephane Dion is desperate to change his legacy of being one of the few Liberal leaders that weren’t Prime Minister and I think that is what drove him to work out this coalition. He probably saw it as a golden opportunity to improve his historical record. Even now the second place runner in the leadership contest, Bob Rae, is trying to use the coalition for his own political gains. This could precipitate a complete collapse of the Liberal party should they piss off the Canadian people which is their current direction.
The leader of the Bloc sees this as an opportunity to have a veto on any and all actions in parliament. The other members of the coalition try to pretend that they haven’t given the Bloc the equivalent of Sovereignty Association. The terminology in the agreement was between Canada and Quebec. The Bloc had nothing to lose everything to gain no matter what happens. Canada is the one who loses by this political pandering to Sovereignists.
Finally, we have Jack and the NDP. He knows that this is the closest he will have come to being in power. Canada is not a socialist country and wouldn’t support their policies in government. They provide a counterbalance to other policies but they aren’t mainstream. When Jack has participated in anything in a cooperative way you get told by him that he did it. He takes credit for everything that comes close to him. He needs constant reinforcement that he is a good boy. Jack loves the camera and just can’t resist puffing himself up.
The politicians have damaged their standing in society – they have shown themselves to be more interested in power than getting the job done. Originally the opposition didn’t want to cooperate with the Conservatives lest they be successful in handling this crisis. Canadian have engaged themselves in this situation and hopefully they will hold the politicians to account for doing what we citizens want them to do.
