Coming from a Prime Minister whose own party quite literally wrote the book on how to disrupt parliament, there's something ironic about threatening to call an election because "Parliament is becoming increasingly dysfunctional".
He sees the very force behind this situation every morning when he shaves - unless of course, PMSH doesn't use a mirror in the mornings.
As the leader of the CPC, and the current occupant of the PMO, Mr. Harper is unquestionably the man who has the opportunity to make parliament work, and yet by his own actions and words, it is clear that he has no interest in such matters. Everything has been about partisan squabbling - even today, he attempts to lay the blame for his party's inability to get some of their "key" legislation through Parliament upon the Senate and the opposition, taking absolutely no ownership for the intransigence of his own party in a minority parliament.
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I so hope they get spanked in the next election, and I hope it comes soon. They've really behaved despicably, and like all bullies, they blame everyone but themselves. Like all right-wing parties, they seem to think that hypocrisy is OK as long as the people are fooled.
What Reform, er, I mean the CPC needs is to lose badly enough that they look for a new leader, and that the next leader is much more like Joe Clark and much less like our Republican wannabe PM.
I'm cautious about tarring an entire spectrum of parties with the dishonesty brush. Certainly the current dominant parties that derive their ideology from the Neo-Conservative thinkers seem to be unusually prone to a combination of bullying and hypocrisy that makes it appear that they lust after power for its own sake.
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