Not much moves faster than the political landscape anywhere. No less so than right here in Canada. Prime Minister Harper paid his visit to the Governor General and got his prorogation to send all the parliamentarians on a long vacation while tempers hopefully cool down at least while Santa Claus is in town. What I'd like to know is, why in the world are we paying them for not being at work? It's not like everyone caught a really bad flu and decided it was safer for the country not to infect the spoil sports who would rather see their government at work in the House of Commons where they can usually be seen yelling and screaming epithets and insults back and forth across the isle.
Never mind. It is all very wearisome at the least and I just hear the word 'politics' and my head falls down onto my chest and my eyes suddenly snap shut and I am suddenly somnolent. Before I had time to take a really long, hot bath and maybe begin re-reading DeMille's Gold Coast I'd read in 1991, why two anticipated events happened: I lost my Member of Parliament who just happened to be the Leader of the Opposition, Stephane Dion, whose only sin I ever saw up close and personal is that he has an uncanny resemblance to the Dormouse at Alison in Wonderland's Tea Party. He's gone. The Right Honorable was a university professor before he became leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, now fasterthanyoucanreadthis he has been replaced by an even more patrician ivory tower professor whom the political cartoonists are going to have a field day with once he takes his proper seat in the House of Commons come January. Michael Ignatieff is the elitist of the Elite. Haven't a clue why people think that Stephen Harper looks somehow spooky and untrustworthy. To me Ignatieff is the spook behind the door. Those eyebrows just have to go, Sir. Both of them.
Ach...I'm tired. Wish I had not started this. Sort of. I'll take up the gauntlet
the next time I drop in. I'll get to those eyebrows and all the rest of it.
In the meantime I have to figure out what I'm going to do about all the various keys I lost somewhere between Saturday's trip to the grocery store and home. That's much more interesting a situation than any politician's self-inflicted fate. Politicians seem to be more easily replaced than a whole bunch of keys none of which have duplicates.
COLD PRESS
- Gwen Beauregard
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- i wrote some books and gave away library. i like to think that every poem is a love poem. i believe that "No" is a full sentence. i used to collect old books and young cats. i don't like noisy people, places or things. my three favourite words: yes, please, thank you. my favourite punctuation mark is the colon: i have a beautiful cat, a bicycle, an old typewriter, and a ladle. these things make me happy.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Thursday, December 04, 2008
OH CANADA!
What an amazing turn of events. Here we are, arguably one of the very best countries in the world to live in. And what are we doing to it? Or, more to the point what is our Federal Government doing with it? Fighting with each other like small schoolyard bullies to see who is going to be Top Dog! It's pure madness.
Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, having called an illegal election which no one wanted just a little over a month ago at a cost to the taxpayers of millions of dollars at a critical time when the world is in economic crisis having been narrowly re-elected by a negligible 34% of the population to yet another minority government, has now created another artificial crisis with the ramifications being that Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition is gleefully going for his jugular and has set in motion a very bizarre situation in which the Liberals, headed by a hugely unpopular and outgoing Stephanne Dion, the New Democratic Party headed by Jack Layton, and - wait for it, here comes the clincher - the Separatist leader of the Bloc Nationale, that wily fox, Gilles Duceppe whose sole function in life is to see to the dismantling of Canada as we know it, have conspired to form a coalition to bring down Harper's government.
Machiavelli would be proud! If it weren't so pathetic it would be farcical. Now everybody is furious, not least we, the Canadian people. Governer General Mikael Jean who was on a European trip, to lend further intrigue, just happens to be married to a man who was in tight with the Quebec Separatists in another life. Makes for some interesting times. Jean has cut short her trip and is on her way back to Ottawa in time to be served with the request for dissolution of Parliament on Monday. It gets better since she is going to be stuck with Hobson's Choice. Nice going!
One way or the other, we could very well be headed into another Federal Election while the ink hasn't even dried on the last one we just had. Further, Quebec is in the middle of an election and we are headed to the Polls on December 8th.
What's the problem, you may well ask? Wish I had a simple answer. It's about the economy, stupid! Economy, economy, economy...have I said it enough? ECONOMY! Well, the problem is that those Simple Serpents in Ottawa couldn't hold their noses long enough to find a loop hole wider than a barn door to step through to blast Stephen Harper's planned budget right out of the drink. Come to think of it, what are they drinking in the House of Commons these days? It isn't water.
This is a constitutional problem since that coalition that is seeking to become a triumvate Opposition Party opens up the the prospect of Duceppe's Bloc Nationale sovereignist party laying the stinkingest sulfuric rotten egg ever laid on an unsuspecting Canadian population. How sweet, the tail is going to wag the dog!
Only in Canada? Pity.
Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, having called an illegal election which no one wanted just a little over a month ago at a cost to the taxpayers of millions of dollars at a critical time when the world is in economic crisis having been narrowly re-elected by a negligible 34% of the population to yet another minority government, has now created another artificial crisis with the ramifications being that Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition is gleefully going for his jugular and has set in motion a very bizarre situation in which the Liberals, headed by a hugely unpopular and outgoing Stephanne Dion, the New Democratic Party headed by Jack Layton, and - wait for it, here comes the clincher - the Separatist leader of the Bloc Nationale, that wily fox, Gilles Duceppe whose sole function in life is to see to the dismantling of Canada as we know it, have conspired to form a coalition to bring down Harper's government.
Machiavelli would be proud! If it weren't so pathetic it would be farcical. Now everybody is furious, not least we, the Canadian people. Governer General Mikael Jean who was on a European trip, to lend further intrigue, just happens to be married to a man who was in tight with the Quebec Separatists in another life. Makes for some interesting times. Jean has cut short her trip and is on her way back to Ottawa in time to be served with the request for dissolution of Parliament on Monday. It gets better since she is going to be stuck with Hobson's Choice. Nice going!
One way or the other, we could very well be headed into another Federal Election while the ink hasn't even dried on the last one we just had. Further, Quebec is in the middle of an election and we are headed to the Polls on December 8th.
What's the problem, you may well ask? Wish I had a simple answer. It's about the economy, stupid! Economy, economy, economy...have I said it enough? ECONOMY! Well, the problem is that those Simple Serpents in Ottawa couldn't hold their noses long enough to find a loop hole wider than a barn door to step through to blast Stephen Harper's planned budget right out of the drink. Come to think of it, what are they drinking in the House of Commons these days? It isn't water.
This is a constitutional problem since that coalition that is seeking to become a triumvate Opposition Party opens up the the prospect of Duceppe's Bloc Nationale sovereignist party laying the stinkingest sulfuric rotten egg ever laid on an unsuspecting Canadian population. How sweet, the tail is going to wag the dog!
Only in Canada? Pity.