What happened to Democracy?
There’s an old saying, desperate times calls for desperate measures. As the world sinks in to greater despair, does this idiom hold true? After losing an election, and promising to step down, Liberal Leader Stefan Dion, decides to unite with a separatist group, to overthrow a government which we the people democratically elected... I am the only sane person left to realize this goes every grain against democracy? Though the world may be in a desperate time, disregarding democracy is not the way to deal with it. Most of us on this blog may not like Prime Minister Harper, but seriously overthrowing him like this, replacing him with the Liberals, NDP, and Bloc holding hands just doesn’t seem right, nor justified.
This an all time low, for the Bloc, Liberals and NDP. Jack Layton is a prick, back in 06' he backstabbed the Liberals, causing the election which Harper won. Now, he unites with the Liberals, and Bloc, to help who? The families he promises to spoon feed, or the Bloc whose sole purpose is to seperate our nation. We the people decide when a government is failing, this responsibility should never be held by opposition parties. This is simply wrong.
This an all time low, for the Bloc, Liberals and NDP. Jack Layton is a prick, back in 06' he backstabbed the Liberals, causing the election which Harper won. Now, he unites with the Liberals, and Bloc, to help who? The families he promises to spoon feed, or the Bloc whose sole purpose is to seperate our nation. We the people decide when a government is failing, this responsibility should never be held by opposition parties. This is simply wrong.
posted by Tristan | 12/03/2008 11:04:00 AM
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Anonymous
yea this is f'ed up for sure. Can you imagine, PM Dion? Cue the Celine dion jokes for the americans. Also, have you been keeping track with the story of Shinerama from Carleton and the "thought" police at queens? This whole politically correctness is starting to annoy me. Check out this sweet bit of commentary on the issue. I'm glad I go to a conservative university.
12/03/2008 02:51:00 PMhttp://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081129.COMURPHY29/TPStory/National
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Anonymous
I am quite disappointed with this move made by the liberals, NDP, and Bloc Quebecois. Stephen Harper may not be the greatest guy around, but Jack Layton is an arrogant @sshat and Dion is, well, Dion. I think the people who are cheering for this move are mainly the liberal ideologues who think anything remotely conservative is "evil". I think this leftist merger will be detrimental to Canada. We can expect that Quebec will get more than its fair share of special attention. The NDP will ease up the laws on criminals, all the while inflating the welfare state. The liberals will bring in way more immigrants than we could possibly assimilate and throw money at various organizations as a gesture that keeps the vote coming back to them and destroying the cultural fabric of Canada. Now combine all of these things into a single party and we'll see what kind of hell Canada is in for. I'll take Harper any day over this mess of a leftist, divisive regime.
12/03/2008 06:07:00 PMAs for the Shinerama incident at Carleton, I never bothered to put up a post up on the blog about it, since it has already received enough press coverage. All I can say is that I'm glad the majority reaction was not in defense of them. I think we have a radical minority trying to control the way people think, but the majority are getting pissed about just how rediculous it's getting, or at least a little weirded out by it. If there's any hope in defeating the wrath of PC, I think it has gotten so bad that the ideology is destroying itself by becoming so blantantly obvious. I'm not going to elaborate on this anymore, but I just want to pose a question here on the blog. WHY do we have thought police, diversity training, cultural marxism preached in the classrooms and on the television. Is it coincidence that we should just brush off or is it a deliberate attempt to destroy traditional Western values and society?
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Anonymous
The thing is, a coalition government is as elected as Harper's conservatives.
12/03/2008 08:00:00 PMWhen we vote, we vote for an MP. All of the elected MPs go off to Ottawa to run the country. They can form any groups they wish, so long as any legislation has the support of the majority of the house.
Coalitions are the way our democracy is supposed to function. Just take a step back and think clearly about this, ignore what all the politiicans are saying. If necissary, consult the constitution as to how things are done.
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Anonymous
James, I respect the constitution legality argument; but with all due respect it holds only in verbiage and not in application.
12/03/2008 09:17:00 PMLast election, I didn't vote for a person but rather a party. While I may have checked my ballot next to Hugh Arrison's name, I didn't vote specifically for him (although to be fair, I did find out about him on his website), but for the platform of the party he was representing. It could have been John T. Asshole on my ballot and I would still have voted for him if he represented the party lines which best represented my beliefs.
Now I am pretty sure the same holds for 99.9% of voters, including you James. That being said, I don't remember seeing a Liberal-NDP-Bloc candidate on my ballot, so how is that they have an electoral mandate? Sure, in aggregate, more people voted for these parties than the Conservatives but would this necessarily have been the case if they ran as a single party? Of course not, because the parties are making different concessions within their individual platforms, thus possibly altering the voting decisions of the electorate. For instance, maybe someone who voted Liberal would do otherwise if this coalition party was on the ballot, because the NDP contingent was too socialist for them.
Therefore, the possibility of this coalition gaining power is a sham. Now I have no problem with government being defeated in a non-confidence vote so long as the resulting measures indicate the will of the the people, since after all that is what defines democracy. So is this coalition the people's will? Due to my reasoning above, the answer is possibly, but we just don't know for sure. Current polls indicate it is not.
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Anonymous
Smiley:
12/03/2008 09:41:00 PMThank you for the logical and well thought out post.
I personally do not care who is prime minister, I just want people to work together to solve the problems of the day. If the parties can do this with Harper at the helm then I will be just as satasfied as if it was any other leader.
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Anonymous
Good post Smiley. Now, if the NDP, Liberals, and Bloc Quebecois amalgamated and ran for the next election, I wouldn't have an issue with it. However, for them to suddenly amalgamate and overthrow the Conservatives without Canadians having the opportunity to vote in this new megaparty is just plain wrong. It is a big sham indeed.
12/03/2008 10:49:00 PMPost a Comment
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