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May. 14th, 2005 10:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaalaStephen Harper: "I'm tired of playing games."
Oh, that's rich coming from you.
For non-Canadians: the Conservative Party, led by Mr. Harper, in cooperation with the separatist Bloc Quebecois have been using every trick in the book to bring the House of Commons to a standstill. They claim they're doing this because the motions they keep passing are votes of non-confidence (which, going by the rule book and historical precedence, they aren't). But they simply could have waited until the budget vote next week for a proper vote of confidence instead of causing this deadlock and doing all this posing.
I agree that the Liberal Party (roughly the equivalent of Labour for you Brits) has lost the ability to govern, but I think all this palaver is stupid and just supposed to make the Liberals (and the New Democratic Party[1] who are voting with them) look bad.
Argh.
[1] roughly analagous to the Liberal Democrats, I gather
Oh, that's rich coming from you.
For non-Canadians: the Conservative Party, led by Mr. Harper, in cooperation with the separatist Bloc Quebecois have been using every trick in the book to bring the House of Commons to a standstill. They claim they're doing this because the motions they keep passing are votes of non-confidence (which, going by the rule book and historical precedence, they aren't). But they simply could have waited until the budget vote next week for a proper vote of confidence instead of causing this deadlock and doing all this posing.
I agree that the Liberal Party (roughly the equivalent of Labour for you Brits) has lost the ability to govern, but I think all this palaver is stupid and just supposed to make the Liberals (and the New Democratic Party[1] who are voting with them) look bad.
Argh.
[1] roughly analagous to the Liberal Democrats, I gather
