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Democracy reinstated

by Aaron Wherry on Friday, January 8, 2010 12:41am - 42 Comments

Conservative Brent Rathgeber issues an important clarification as to his previous statement on the state of democracy in Canada.

must clarify—Parliament is being suspended–democracy is much larger and much broader and of course continues everyday in Canada.

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  • http://intensedebate.com/people/SeanStok SeanStok

    You project too much. It may give you comfort to assume everyone approaches this from the same position of visceral partisan anger as you do, but you're wrong about that.

  • Mike T.

    …despite our best efforts ROFL kbainow!!!!11111oneoneone

  • common man

    I don`t think there is as much anger out there as there is resignation. After watching 4 years of everything from body bags to the letter C on a hat we`re sick of it. We`re trying to figure out if there will be any jobs for our kids and any pension for us and you want us to get these guys back in Ottawa to fight over what was in an e-mail 3 years ago about something that may have happened to an Afghan roadside bomber. If the bomber hasn`t already blown himself up, he`s probably long since forgotten about the incident that the opp. wants to use against the government.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Ricard_S_Argent Richard_S_Argent

    I think it's pretty obvious…the "common man" does ;)

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/TJCook TJCook

    "we`re sick of it."
    "We`re trying to figure out"
    "you want us to get these guys back in Ottawa"

    Common Man fancies the "we" to be the Silent Majority of Real Canadians, but really, it only includes him, Jarrid, s_c_f and AVR.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Scott_Tribe Scott_Tribe

    Dont forget wilson

  • common man

    Ultimately the people will decide if the institutions you speak off are worthy of respect. Look you`ve already decided that Harper is to blame for any disfunction there is in Ottawa but a lot of people will say the problem is

    an offical opp. that still thinks it`s just on a timeout from power and cannot grasp the idea that the people will respect solid, useful criticism as opposed to this hysterical lunging from one phony scandal to the next.

    I`m just saying that the idea that after 4 years of the constant bickering that is Ottawa`s political circle we welcome a break from it all. And the fact that Liberals want Parliament back so they can continue with this monotonous bickering is a losing position.

    They would be wise to put some serious thought into that upcoming Thinkers Conference or it will be quickly labelled the Stinkers Conference.

  • Holly Stick

    The Facebook group, at over 108,000 now has a supporting website: http://noprorogue.ca/

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Nich Nich

    Perhaps to a lot of people undemocratic means illegitimate?

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/tedbetts tedbetts

    I can tell you quite certainly that shutting down Parliament, throwing out half is legislative agenda, shutting down comittees… all so (1) his MPs can go see the Olympics in person, as his MPs are telling us or (2) to avoid accountability, as most Canadians believe… doesn't require Canadians to do much "theorizing" or for us to conclude what he did was wrong and for the wrong reasons.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/sea_n_mountains sea_n_mountains

    yeah i can only imagine the whimpering while he was being lambasted by central control.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/SeanStok SeanStok

    You project too much. It may give you comfort to assume everyone approaches this from the same position of visceral partisan anger as you do, but you're wrong about that.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/SeanStok SeanStok

    Who gets to decide when our institutions of representation and accountability ought or ought not to be respected?

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Nich Nich

    The Emperor wears no clothes.

    - The Economist

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