Comments on: Governor General Agrees to Suspend Canadian Parliament

By: reader

reader — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:37:33 +0000

oops … The ”surprise NDP government” was in Ontario 20 years ago. Important point.

By: reader

reader — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:36:03 +0000

Ok .. it may be only you guys standing between me and insanity: the ’overnight’ polls released last night show the Tories up, everyone else down, but 18% NOT SURE about what they think is happening. It feels like planted polling to me. Harper is the only one with the machinery, governemnt, and money to dominate with any lie he wishes to use. It’s BushCo at -10 C.

Harper is being called a liar publicly and they cannot even pretend to trust him anymore. It will keep festering until Harper is gone no matter how long that takes but Dion must be replaced now I think to give the coalition continued life. I wish they didn’t have to use the Liberal leader as PM but it seems that will be a fact of life given Canadian politics. We used to tend left, but hell, NOT that far left. I guess.

Former federal NDP leader Broadbent (universally respected) is on fire and Liberal leadership contender Rae is vocal, honest, and powerful. He’s a good match for Harper but Rae was the ”failed” Premier of a surprise NDP government 20 years ago so they ooga booga him for that. The other Liberal leadership contender Ignatieff (playing it very safe which I hate) perhaps comes across on paper a better communicator than Dion but I think his halting, intellectual style would give much the same end result as Dion’s.

People are afraid of Harper, like BushCo. He’ll be gone before he is discredited for anything that cannot be called a matter of opinion. The media’s message seems to be GG Jean really had no choice. I think that’s true unfortunately. It would have been really ugly if Harper had gone after her: she’s from Quebec so it wouldn’t have given him any pause.

We are a Banana Republic with Maple Sugar at this point.

By: DWilson

DWilson — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:06:09 +0000

A lesson from Black History for a Black GG for All Canadians
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/bl.....ntbus.html

A Citizen’s Strike Boycott. The smirking Harper thinks he has won but the situation can change rapidly if a large portion of the public stops all nonessential purchases including eating out, movies and anything that can be delayed in purchasing.

By: DWilson

DWilson — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:30:08 +0000

The Canadian blogs are not mixed at all. There are the usual nut jobs that also consider goosestepping a sacred right and love the decision but the public contempt for GG Jean is overwhelmingly evident.

It is very much a wake-up call to All Canadians including those Human Beings that vote with Bloc Quebecois and that Harper’s Thugs constantly demean as nonhuman. Harper’s Cabal is standard textbook Bush-Cheney-Rove.

Many new Canadian citizens voiced that they left previous Dictatorships and are now a part of another Dictatorship.

GG Jean needs to be removed as her role has totally exposed colonial British Indentured Serfdom.

By: Stirling Newberry

Stirling Newberry — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:26:58 +0000

The Tories are now accusing the Liberals and NDP of treason. Rhetoric like that is almost certain to be backed up with use of executive powers between now and Parliament reconvening.

If things spiral out of control, and that looks possible, this could precipitate more than a momentary crisis.

By: Ian Welsh

Ian Welsh — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:45:46 +0000

Big mistake on the GG’s part. Very disappointed in her. Completely gutless, and the wrong the decision given the coalition had more MPs and more votes.

By: Hairhead

Hairhead — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:37:19 +0000

Harper, like all egomaniacs with authoritarian streaks, has made the mistake of showing his complete contempt for all of the other members of his party, all of the other members of the other political parties, and all of the Canadian public. Yes, as an intelligent, cunning, and amoral manipulator, he has definitely terrorized the GG into extending the life of his government for a short while — but he has utterly underestimated the utter hatred he has generated in his political opponents, within his party, and throughout the Canadian public. Like a tick who has burrowed through the skin, he is clinging tightly and he will be difficult to remove, but it will be done because his loyal constituency is smaller than the Republican party’s is, and it is shrinking rapidly.

By: bluebutterfly

bluebutterfly — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:44:10 +0000

Nope..it is not. It has been declared three times..WW1, WW2, and during the October Crisis in 1970.

By: bluebutterfly

bluebutterfly — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:22:46 +0000

Damn [edited by mod]. Like most politicians, she is looking out for her own political future. She came from Haiti and what does she do for her starving country..zero.

By: Stirling Newberry

Stirling Newberry — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:39:44 +0000

That is when he had the possibility of his government falling. Now, he does not, and can push through whatever he likes under threat of a yet another election.

This was about the worst thing that the GG could have done, in that it gave Harper everything he wanted, and for nothing.