Comments on: Separatists Pay Taxes Too

By: johnnyonline

johnnyonline — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:32:03 +0000

kashicat,

so that it will be clear…

why doesn’t anyone approving of the coalition want to hear what the conservative budget is?

i don’t think harper is “hanging on to power” but acting responsibly. he may face a vote of confidence in january anyway. if you would like to complain you can always write to her excellency.

however, from a purely idealogical standpoint, a vote of confidence should have been held on monday. it would have been very interesting to see whether the governor-general would have asked the coalition to form a government or whether she would have decided that an election would have been the best way to go? some time for reflection is not going to hurt anybody.

By: johnnyonline

johnnyonline — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:10:34 +0000

at 11:58 if you mean harper was willing to sit in opposition with the bloc and vote against the libs – so?

when did stephen harper form a coalition with the bloc again?

and how much are you willing to bet that the population of quebec can’t tell the diffence between themselves and sovereignists?

minions? is that the polite way of saying the running dogs of capitalism?

By: kashicat

kashicat — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:59:13 +0000

And by the way…Harper and his minions may SAY they’re “not demonizing Quebec,” but I bet Quebecers don’t see it that way.

By: kashicat

kashicat — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:58:39 +0000

Actually, yes. Since he himself was perfectly willing to work with the Bloc when the Libs had a minority and might be defeated — and since his predecessor made the same deal in 2000.

And since the coalition is perfectly constitutional, and it was utterly unheard of for a PM to seek to prorogue parliament a) two weeks after it started; and b) solely for the purpose of avoiding facing a vote of confidence from the House (which confidence is REQUIRED by any government, by our laws).

So…yes. If the man had any honour or belief in the actual rules of parliament and wasn’t in it solely to hang onto power but was in it for the good of the country…yes. I’d expect it.

But since it was Harper, who has none of those things…no, I didn’t expect it.

By: johnnyonline

johnnyonline — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:54:56 +0000

kashicat,

please make a distiction – the conservatives are not demonizing quebec – they are just categorically opposed to the “bloc-we-have-zero-interest-in-what’s-good-for-canada-quebecois” participating with sudden interest in forming the government. and so they should. after all they were elected to form the government.

did you expect the prime minister to say “gee… well… ok – if that’s what you really want?”

By: kashicat

kashicat — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:54:07 +0000

Thanks for this post! I’ve been wondering how this whole thing must be playing in Quebec, but wasn’t sure how to start finding out. It’s terrible that things have come to this — and that the Cons are trying to demonize people in Quebec in its desperation to keep power.

How is this going to affect the provincial election, do you think? Is Charest toast? Do the voters remember that he is really a Con, himself?

By: Mel

Mel — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:15:54 +0000

I should remember you October 27,1995…
Quebec we love you they said so, after referendum we decided to stay in Canada. Now, they want the Bloc to have nothing to say in our federal governement? For me, one day they love us and the other day no?

By: Éric

Éric — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:09:33 +0000

AGF wrote:
“See? Nothing will change in Canada after Québec’s independence. You guys are perfectly able to cook up these periodic constitutional crisis all by yourselves… ”

So true! LOL!

By: kriss

kriss — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:17:12 +0000

For whom it concerns….

http://makeparliamentwork.ca/

By: midnightjack

midnightjack — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:58:25 +0000

I have to go, goodnight everybody..