Tag: Prorogue
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And another thing.
So everyone’s up in arms about our Prime Minister proroguing government three times in two years. Folks’re saying it’s anti-democratic (it isn’t; it’s a function of parliamentary democracy). They’re saying it’s fascist (it’s not. There’s nothing radical about Stephen Harper, and although he does try *very* hard to be authoritarian (it’s kind of cute, sometimes)…
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Prorogue Mountain
I call this one, “Prorogue Mountain”. It’s about how one cowboy doesn’t think it’s right for the other cowboy to just ride off all willy-nilly into the sunset without so much as a handshake and a thank you, for TWO MONTHS, and how the other cowboy doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with that. Some might…
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Pro- who with the what now?
A year ago, 90% of Canadians had never, I surmise, heard of the word “prorogation”. That’s because it’s supposed to be incredibly rare for the elected leader of a parliamentary democracy to ask the reigning monarch/head of state to suspend the country’s legislature. What does it mean, effectively? It means that all bills and motions…