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<strong>Date: </strong> September 13, 2007

Prime Minister Harper suspended parliament last week, largely because he doesn\'t want to get non-confidence voted out of power. He\'s bringing it back next month for his annual speech from the throne, where he will outline his new legislative agenda for the coming session. Optically, it will look better for him to get confidence voted then, for he\'ll just have finished outlining a bevy of new promises for voters, which he can then accuse the opposition of stupidly crushing. <br> <br>But speaking of stupidly crushing things, Harper\'s decision to suspend parliament resulted in a high number of bills getting killed. High-profile, important bills that had been among his government\'s proudest achievements. Like the bill to raise the age of consent to 16, the bill to institute eight-year terms for senators, and the bill to implement tougher penalties for criminals convicted of violent gun crimes. <br> <br>Harper plans to run for re-election on his record, but now on some key issues he has far less record to run on.

[sasquatch2]

This is politics at it's worst.

The LIBRANO dominated Senate stalls legistlation and then the LIBRANOs accuse the government which proposed and passed this legistlation with killing it.

LIBRANOs certainly depend on Canadians having a short term memory loss.

[WBenson]

sasquatch2 wrote:

This is politics at it's worst.

The LIBRANO dominated Senate stalls legistlation and then the LIBRANOs accuse the government which proposed and passed this legistlation with killing it.

LIBRANOs certainly depend on Canadians having a short term memory loss.

He has full freedom to appoint 20 (12 vacancies, 8 "emergencies", unless some of the Mulroney ones are still in) Conservatives to the Senate if he so pleases. Though it wouldn't give them a majority, it would make it much easier to pass legislation. Since he refuses to do so on the principle of Senate reform, he makes his job much harder.

[Kjorteo]

Wait, the Senate does stuff now? I was under the impression from what I had read in the About Canada guide and such that it was basically a ceremonial rubber-stamp body without about as much relevance to whether a law actually passes as the Governor General's signature. Well, except for the GST thing.

Also, sasquatch2, nice work somehow finding a way to blame the Liberals for Harper deciding to close the Parliament.

[Mr_Canada old]

I'm happy about one thing..

Age of Consent...

I'm still legal, bwahahaha...

Gr. 8-9 and up still open,

[sasquatch2]

Kjorteo

Quote:

Also, sasquatch2, nice work somehow finding a way to blame the Liberals for Harper deciding to close the Parliament.

Thank you for the complement but it is undeserved. Spin-meister, I am not.

I just called the LIBRANOs on their spin.

[WBenson]

sasquatch2 wrote:

Kjorteo

Quote:

Also, sasquatch2, nice work somehow finding a way to blame the Liberals for Harper deciding to close the Parliament.

Thank you for the complement but it is undeserved. Spin-meister, I am not.

I just called the LIBRANOs on their spin.

Obviously, since the Liberals in the Senate were the cause of this prorogation, this must be some way of dealing with them? How will a throne speech change the balance in the Senate?

[sasquatch2]

Not sure what anyone's strategy is but my guess is that the Tories are letting Taliban Jack and the Libranos stew in their own juice. The Tories are likely waiting for the media momentum of the CO2 AGW/KYOTO thing to finally die out.

The Tories are plump with cash but don't want to be seen to be precipitating an election that the Dippers and LIBRANOs can't afford.

MY guess is they are making a big show of avoiding an election while playing the others into causing one. They are all going to play the blame game given a chance.

[Harminder]

It appear Candian politics is a state of what i would like to call a hung palament, with no clear magority party thing will most likely be a case of no-confidence vote every couple of months as one side tries to stay in power will the other tries to take power any means possible.

[WBenson]

Harminder wrote:

It appear Candian politics is a state of what i would like to call a hung palament, with no clear magority party thing will most likely be a case of no-confidence vote every couple of months as one side tries to stay in power will the other tries to take power any means possible.

The opposition only does it if they think they can win an election. Any party that thinks that they'd be worse off in a General Election is going to keep the Conservatives in as long as they can.

[kenmore]

well Harper delaying the work of the nation to keep the tories in power pissed me off royally.. there were alot of bills to be passed and alot of work done by alot of people and now we are supposed to start at zero..
Screw Harper.. bring on the election... !

[DerbyX]

kenmore wrote:

well Harper delaying the work of the nation to keep the tories in power pissed me off royally.. there were alot of bills to be passed and alot of work done by alot of people and now we are supposed to start at zero..
Screw Harper.. bring on the election... !

Then we can listen to all the cons blame "liberal tactics" and of course Canadian voters when they lose.

[RUEZ]

DerbyX wrote:

kenmore wrote:

well Harper delaying the work of the nation to keep the tories in power pissed me off royally.. there were alot of bills to be passed and alot of work done by alot of people and now we are supposed to start at zero..
Screw Harper.. bring on the election... !

Then we can listen to all the cons blame "liberal tactics" and of course Canadian voters when they lose.

Then we can listen to all the libs blame all the cons for everything.

[DerbyX]

RUEZ wrote:

DerbyX wrote:

kenmore wrote:

well Harper delaying the work of the nation to keep the tories in power pissed me off royally.. there were alot of bills to be passed and alot of work done by alot of people and now we are supposed to start at zero..
Screw Harper.. bring on the election... !

Then we can listen to all the cons blame "liberal tactics" and of course Canadian voters when they lose.

Then we can listen to all the libs blame all the cons for everything.

The Libs don't do that. Take a good honest and open-minded look (for once) at the sheer volume of cons on this forum alone blaming the liberals for even their own problems. Rev said it quite well that on a thread about an NDP MP calling Harpers corruption all you cons could manage was "ya well the Lios........" and "its really the fault of the LIbs...."

Witness Brian blaming Trudeau for his own failings following a long line of con traditions. Hell, its always your con brethern who simply lable anyone not as far right as them as "Liberals". Thats exactly what GFPB did remember.

Harper commits enough corrupt acts and so becomes a "Liberal" by proxy.

No Liberal or NDp has done that in reverse but you guys always do.

You never ever take responsibilty for anything you do.

Its childish and pathetic but unfortunately an ingrained Con trait.

Your yourself posted in a thread about 6 months ago when polls showed Lib support gaining on the CPC.

"WTF is wrong with Canadians"?

You didn't ask "WTF is wrong with Harper"?.

It wasn't Harpers fault that Candaisn weren't being won over it was the fault of the voters.

[RUEZ]

DerbyX wrote:

RUEZ wrote:

DerbyX wrote:

kenmore wrote:

well Harper delaying the work of the nation to keep the tories in power pissed me off royally.. there were alot of bills to be passed and alot of work done by alot of people and now we are supposed to start at zero..
Screw Harper.. bring on the election... !

Then we can listen to all the cons blame "liberal tactics" and of course Canadian voters when they lose.

Then we can listen to all the libs blame all the cons for everything.

The Libs don't do that. Take a good honest and open-minded look (for once) at the sheer volume of cons on this forum alone blaming the liberals for even their own problems. Rev said it quite well that on a thread about an NDP MP calling Harpers corruption all you cons could manage was "ya well the Lios........" and "its really the fault of the LIbs...."

Witness Brian blaming Trudeau for his own failings following a long line of con traditions. Hell, its always your con brethern who simply lable anyone not as far right as them as "Liberals". Thats exactly what GFPB did remember.

Harper commits enough corrupt acts and so becomes a "Liberal" by proxy.

No Liberal or NDp has done that in reverse but you guys always do.

You never ever take responsibilty for anything you do.

Its childish and pathetic but unfortunately an ingrained Con trait.

Your yourself posted in a thread about 6 months ago when polls showed Lib support gaining on the CPC.

"WTF is wrong with Canadians"?

You didn't ask "WTF is wrong with Harper"?.

It wasn't Harpers fault that Candaisn weren't being won over it was the fault of the voters.

Indeed, WTF is wrong with Canadians.