Remember when Harper was bragging about how he was going to move to fixed election dates to take all of the games playing an brinkmanship? Well apparently that was just so much smoke.
At an Ottawa press conference Tuesday, Mr. Harper insisted he would not be breaking his word by disregarding his own fixed-election-date law that sets voting day in October, 2009, insisting that opposition parties want to bring down the government before then, so it is up to him to remove doubts about who will govern.
“They're committed to an election well before then. If they're clearly committed to that course of action, and I think they are, then it behooves the government to provide some responsibility,” he said.
No Mr. Harper, you are breaking your word. In fact, you are doing exactly what you used to complain so bitterly about. Apparently you can even stand on your own principles. Remember, Mr. Harper, it was you who blathered on incessantly about fixed election dates; you who blathered on about electoral reform and you who has clearly done exactly nothing that is meaningful in this regard.
What else have you lied to Canadians about?
2 comments:
The BS the PM is spouting reminds me of those situations you see on TV in which the person with the gun says, "Don't make me shoot you." And then, inevitably, the person with the gun blames the victim for the fact that he shot the person.
I wish more people would call him on this. And I really still hope that the GG says, sorry, your government passed a law, my hands are tied. Or even better (and less likely), to tell him that she sees through his ploy.
Sometimes, maybe a constitutional crisis is better than the mendacity emanating from the PMO.
Well said!
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