Putsch in Ottawa

[bgmb]

Dear lord!!!!!!!!!! I thought we were done with this guy (DION) when will he give up.

The guy is such a pu$$y it makes me sick every time he speaks.

The liberals and NDPers can't earn power from Canadians so now they will steal it and fill Ontario's pockets with the west's hard earned wealth.

Union boys should be happy.

I can't see this happening though Harper will have a few tricks yet.

[mcfarms]

OK Kiddies here's todays magic word.

Prorogation

A prorogation is the period between two sessions of a legislative body. When a legislature or parliament is prorogued, it is still constituted (that is, all members remain as members and a general election is not necessary), but all orders of the body (bills, motions, etc.) are expunged. (In the British parliament, this has now changed somewhat in that Public Bills can be carried over from one session to another.)

In the British and Canadian parliamentary systems, this is usually due to the completion of the agenda set forth in the Speech from the Throne (in the UK, called the legislative programme). Legislatures and parliaments, once prorogued, remain in recess until summoned again by the Queen, Governor General, or Lieutenant Governor, and a new session is begun with the State Opening of Parliament and the Speech from the Throne.

In the parliament of the United Kingdom, prorogation is immediately preceded by the prorogation speech. Prior to the speech, the House of Commons is summoned by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod to the House of Lords. The speech is approved by the queen but is rarely delivered by the sovereign in person (Queen Victoria being the last sovereign to attend prorogation in person); instead it is presented by the Lords Commissioners and read by the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. This speech looks back at the legislative session, noting major bills passed and other actions of the government [1]. The Lord Chancellor wears a tricorn hat for the occasion and the Lords Commissioners wear bicorn hats.

When King Charles I of England dissolved Parliament in 1628 after the Petition of Right, he gave a prorogation speech that effectively cancelled all future meetings of Parliament, at least until he once again required finances.

In Australia, the Parliament is prorogued before an election to prevent the Senate from sitting during the campaign and to expunge all existing senate business before the start of the next parliament. Prorogations not related to the conduct of an election are unusual.
( from wikipedia)

Now everyone back to discussing commodity marketing like your suppose too here........
oh like thats ever going to happen.

[agstar77]

Very unlikely the G.G. would allow it since it would only be done to prevent a vote of confidence, Harper = Toast.

[cottonpicken]

Guess the wheat board isnt going anywhere.

[furrowtickler]

Nice democracy in the free world. Canadians clearly elect a government by a free and democratic vote and it gets pissed away by this B/S! Canada is currently weathering the financial storm better than most industrialized nations on earth and our gov't is overthrown? WTF! How have they misshandled the current situation? By not bowing down to an incompetent auto industry that has been overcharging Canadian's for shitty auto's for a decade? The majority of union workers make more than nurses and teachers with little or no education!

[mustardman]

Someone should really Explain to the conservatives especially Stephen what exactly a minority government is !!!

Maybe if he understood then none of this would have happened.

Mind you Stephen is just Stephen he can't help himself - once a bully always a bully. minority or not.

[agstar77]

The fate of the CWB will be decided by the producer Elected directors of the CWB, as it should be , not by the Government in Ottawa.

[dave4441]

Call another election. I hope there is another option, but country is in big trouble if this goes ahead.

[GrainBeetle]

I have an answer for the West:

Let's start a new political party that listens to the grassroots and doesnt cater to E Canadian interests. I even have a name for such a party, let's call it the "REFORM PARTY".

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !

[GrainBeetle]

MCfarms: With respect to Harper proroguing parliament, he can only rely on this trick once in practical terms.

He played the confidence card once too many times and has pissed off the majority of parliament. Even if he uses these parlimentary procedures and survives to a January budget vote, all future Conservative bills will have to be so un-CONservative in order to avoid a non-confidence vote, that they will have no choice but to leave government now.

Perhaps Steve can start a new Reform Party. David Anderson could be hired to sharpen his pencils, and clean the chalk boards.