- Harper, The devil you say? - now you're starting to understand

Posted: 7:25am, PDT, The Globe and Mail
Senators join campaign to break up Conservative budget bill, Bill Curry, May 18, 2010,
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/senators-join-campaign-to-break-up-conservative-budget-bill/article1573655/ Tab 17

Stephen Harper and the Con's introducing the Budget Bill with such wide ranging, non-financial and non-related provisions is an abuse of Canada's Democratic system - but then what else is new.

Only 33% of Canadians support Harper and the Con's yet we, all Canadians, are being subjected to their tyrannical rule and we only have ourselves to blame. You can't blame Ignatieff or the Liberals. If Canadians gave a clear and unequivocal message that they would not longer put up with Harper and the Con's abuse and were willing to suffer another election to rectify the problem, I strongly suspect that the Liberals would do their part. Keep in mind that the Liberals simply forcing an election as things stand right now could result in a Con majority.

Ignatieff and the Liberals are very clear about the position they're in. Canadians are making it clear they do not want an election. If there were an election there is a possibility that Harper could win a majority, especially if the electorate perceived the Liberals as causing it. Harper having a majority would be a disaster to freedoms and Democracy in Canada. Our society would degenerate to a new dark ages. For example, how long to you think it would take to pass and bring into force an absolute ban on abortion and abolition of gay marriages, excessive sentencing for those convicted of criminal offences to the point of even bringing in the death penalty again. After all G.W. Bush and the right wing extremists in the US are strongly in favour of it and if its good enough for Georgie its good enough for Stevie. (The devil you say? - now you're starting to understand) . There are many many examples of course.

One big difference between Harper and past governments in Canada is that they had the best interests of all Canadians and Canada as a whole At heart. In a word Harper doesn't. Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of Harper - I couldn't resist.

Currently, the House of Commons is Rubber Stamping and the Senate the Sober First Thought, real and effective review. The irony is that Harper is forcing the Senate to exercise its inherent power, throw off its façade of non-relevance and perform the function that John A. MacDonald and our Fathers of Confederation envisioned.

A sure fired way of determining when the Con's themselves feel guilty about their abuse is when they say the Liberals did the same thing. Come on Jim, lets take a rational approach.

Perhaps the Finance Minister, rather than simply noting that the last Liberal government budget bill in 2005 was similar in its scope could go through the budget bill and explain to all Canadians why each provision should be in it.

It was suggested that Parliamentary tradition prescribes against such Bills. The problem is that Harper simply run roughshod over our traditions. Parliamentary tradition is important since it has been built up over centuries and put in place to ensure comity of opposing political forces, root the present in the past and ensure the continuation of our social order. It is not law, it is the foundation for the rule of law. Throw this away and we fall into the dark precipice.

Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.html