Is Mr Harper a Machiavellian Chessmaster whose 'grand plan for our betterment" we are too simple to appreciate? or is he a Bonehead Bully? |
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Richmond Hill, Ontario - Tuesday, December 9, 2008 - by: Robert Ede | ||||||
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Stephen Harper has admitted failure as Prime Minister he gave up in Septemb er and asked for an election in the face of his own fixed date legislation. Now he tries to bamboozle the Governor General with delaying tactics, and mis-interpretations of the constitution and history simply to avoid a vote of Non-confidence! Prior bad advice, accepted by the Governor General, the 2008 election proved useless. If ever an opposition coalition was to be considered it was then ... to fulfill the balance of the fixed term ... after all Harper admitted he couldn't govern, but everything/everyone else thought things we okay. Now (after saying it so often, that he himself believes he 'won' the election) he acts like a majority Prime Minister and gets rightly stoned by the (majority of seats) opposition for his arrogance. He was chastised by the voters on October 14, we had an opportunity to give him a majority then, and chose not to do so. His Fiscal Update tactics and subsequent about-face and attack behaviours are insults to that "non-mandate", exceedingly appropriate decision of the voters and an insult to the public's duly elected House representatives. To again give bad advice (to prorogue rather than face the music on Monday the 8th) is blatant self-serving and self-defending (nevermind setting a bad precedent for future house-scuffles). The outcome is only delayed ... unless he can let time, reality and infighting convince the opponents to scuttle their own warships, or unless Harper can 'Benedict Stronach/Brison' a few Liberals with cabinet posts (as Martin Jr. did to him) to shore up his numbers ... he's cooked in early February 2009. As an economist, I am sure Harper can count to 308, but as a military strategist he's been reading the wrong books . (aside, whose school of economics is Harper's primary influence?- we should ask him if 'twas always thus? as well) Very few Canadians want an election (the ace up Harper's sleeve) but absolutely no one wants the 3-stooges. If the coalition are given government by the Governor General (and when they blow it as they inevitably will) then,
The prorogue is the second, recent bad advice accepted by our lovely and virtually isolated Governor General (much like a just-arrived, Brit-appointed Governor General might have been in the 1870-1944 period). The framers here and over home anticipated such an occurrence and provided the Governor General (possessor of the Queen-in-Council's full authority within Canada) with a Privy Council - a permanent, ultra cabinet to advise the newbie on local affairs and to be a permanent supervisory body established to watch that the short-term, self-serving plebs in the house of commoners didn't steal all the money for their friends or promise it to the voters to sustain themselves in office. Our current Governor General (and all Governor Generals since 1940) has not had the benefit of the advice and Institutional wisdom of this independent Council of GrandMothers (Iroquois Confederacy parallel term) because control of the Privy Council was usurped by William Lyon McKenzie King under cover, or wartime expediency - and never returned. The Prime Minister should resign for giving such bad advice
Harper had Lynch (holding the combo-office of Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary of the Cabinet) The combined resources of the Government of the day plus the entire Public Service, while the Governor General had the secretary and an outsider, (but accustomed to lots of contract work with government agencies) fee-based, expert-lawyer.
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