Harper asks the Gov-Gnl to hide him once again
macksamillion
Afghanistan..... his
boy Minister of Defence, Peter MacKay, is in deep shit and sinking lower every day in the
House ..... the economy is in the dumpster and unemployment is rising...... so what does
the man we call 'the PM' do? Why, he AGAIN tries to shut down Parliament until he can get
some supportive numbers of Senators into the Senate, and until the furor over his military
actions and suppression of facts, can be forgotten.
And he's using the 2010 Olympics as his excuse ! What the hell do the Olympic Games,
which are totally in the hole financially and hurting BC businesses like no other venue
ever before in history, have to do with the Prime Minister staying in Parliament to
address the many, many issues which the people of Canada NEED to have addressed.
This man is a total coward. He's a wily and politically-savvy coward, and that makes him
so much more unfitting and unsuitable to lead Canada any longer.
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PM seeks Parliament shutdown until March
Liberal MP Goodale: Tories trying to 'shut down democracy'
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 | 2:55 PM ET Hanson/Canadian Press)
The Conservative government plans to shut down Parliament for two months, until after the
Vancouver Winter Olympics, the Prime Minister's Office announced Wednesday.
The announcement triggered immediate condemnation from opposition MPs who labelled the
Conservative government's move as an "almost despotic" attempt to muzzle parliamentarians
amid controversy over the Afghan detainees affair.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's spokesman, Dimitri Soudas, said the government sought the
suspension to consult with Canadians, stakeholders and businesses as it moves into the
"next phase" of its economic action plan amid signs of economic recovery.
"This is quite routine but it is also important to give Canadians an overview of where we
will be taking the country over the next little while," Soudas told CBC News from Ottawa.
He said a speech from the throne will be delivered on March 3, followed by presentation of
the budget the next day. The session had been scheduled to resume on Jan. 25 after the
holiday break.
Soudas said the prime minister spoke with Gov. Gen Micha�lle Jean over the phone earlier
Wednesday. But Soudas said he was not allowed to discuss a "private conversation" between
the prime minister and the Governor General and would not confirm whether Jean had yet
approved Harper's request for the prorogation.
Rideau Hall has yet to comment on the announcement from the Prime Minister's Office.
The move to prorogue, or suspend, Parliament is widely seen as a strategic move by Harper
to gain a majority on Senate committees while possibly also avoiding criticism over the
Afghan detainee issue.
Opposition parties have already warned that prorogation would disrupt the inquiry of a
parliamentary committee looking into accusations that the government ignored warnings
about the torture of Afghan detainees. Strategically, prorogation also prevents question
period criticisms from the opposition parties during the Olympics.
Liberal House Leader Ralph Goodale called the government's move "beyond arrogant" and its
justifications for it "a joke."
"It's almost despotic,� Goodale told CBC News in an interview from Phoenix, Ariz.
�Three times in three years and twice within one year, the prime minister takes this
extraordinary step to muzzle Parliament. This time it�s a coverup of what the
Conservatives knew and when they knew it about torture in Afghanistan. So their solution
is not to answer the questions but, rather, to padlock Parliament and shut down
democracy.�
Before Wednesday's announcement, NDP House leader Libby Davies said there's no legitimate
reason to prorogue Parliament and to do so would be a "political scam."
Soudas hit back at Goodale's accusations, saying the opposition parties have been "unable
to prove any wrongdoing on the part of our military, on the part of our diplomats, on the
part of the Canadian Forces."
"If the opposition wants to spend 2010 talking about Taliban terrorists, we'll let them do
that," he said. "We're going to be focusing on the economy."
Harper to fill Senate vacancies by March
By the time Parliament resumes, Harper would have had time to ask Jean to name five new
senators, which would give the Conservatives a majority on the newly formed Senate
committees and greater control for passing their own legislation.
Soudas confirmed the prime minister will seek to fill the Senate vacancies between now and
March, while the Tories will also push forward on Senate reform, including ending the
appointment process in favour of elected senators.
Prorogation also effectively scuttles all bills before the current Parliament, including
the government's vaunted anti-crime legislation, which the Conservatives had accused
opposition parties of trying to stall. But private member's bills, such as Manitoba Tory
backbencher Candice Hoeppner's bill to scrap the decade-old federal long-gun registry,
would not be affected.
Harper successfully appealed to Jean to prorogue Parliament last December, thwarting all
three opposition parties in their attempt to defeat his government in a no-confidence
vote, and replace it with a proposed coalition between then Liberal leader St�phane Dion's
party and the NDP, with support from the Bloc Qu�b�cois.
After Jean granted Harper's request, the proposed coalition collapsed and Dion was
replaced by current Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, who gave his party's conditional
support to the Conservatives' budget last January.
Liberals are vermin
> He's doing it again......... the heat is on because of his government's actions in
> Afghanistan...
No one of any merit gives a S--- about some tortured vermin terrorists
in Afghanistan, only bleeding-heart leftist, anti-Canadian/America
SCUM traitors like YOU.
Joe
> in Afghanistan, only bleeding-heart leftist, anti-Canadian/America
> SCUM traitors like YOU.
If you truly believe this then you are a poor excuse of a human.