- Mr. Harper, I knew Canadian Democracy and You are Not Canadian Democracy

Submitted: 1 Oct.'10, 7:49am, PDT CBC News

Re-submitted: 9:13am, PDT, 1 Oct.'10 (there is approx 1 hr break in the CBC posting of Comments for this article from 10:44 - 11:42 (7:44 - 8:42 PDT) mine was submitted 10:49 - go figure)

Re-submitted: 11:23am, PDT, 1 Oct.'10 (there is approx 2/3 hr break in the CBC posting of Comments for this article from 11:53 - 12:30 (8:53 - 9:30 PDT) mine was submitted 12:13am (9:13am, PDT) - go figure)

Author defends Harper book, CBC News, October 1, 2010
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2010/09/30/harper-book-lawrence-martin.html

In Parliament on 2 Dec.'08 Stephen Harper stated that "we will fight it with every means that we have" (and Peter McKay this is in Hansard)

Perhaps Stephen Harper, John Baird, even Kory Teneycke or any other member of the Conservative Party of Canada could explain just exactly what Harper meant by these words.

Apparently Harper was not willing to reveal this extremist attitude during his address the next day - "Canada’s Government will use every legal means at our disposal to protect our democracy". One can only wonder why he added "legal" when the light of the media was shining strongly, with all Canadians watching. Also, when Harper says "our democracy", 'our' was evidently referring to his own special brand of 'democracy of the Right' as opposed to 'Canadian Democracy'.

Perhaps John Baird might explain exactly what he meant when he stated "what we want to do is . . . go over the heads of the members of Parliament; go over the heads, frankly, of the Governor General, go right to the Canadian people." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL76A5jUq1k at 3:20)

When you look at these two statements together, it seems to me that going to the Queen if the Governor General refused Prorogation is pretty harmless, albeit offensive to Canada as a sovereign country.

Bringing attention to Stephen Harper and the Con's attitude, approach and actions during this very critical part of Canadian democracy, or lack thereof, as apparently this book does, is very important to all Canadians, especially prior to the next election so that everyone may put in the proper context of Canadian Democracy and judge for themselves, without have to sift thru the hyper-partisan rhetoric and distortions of Harper and the Cons.

Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.html