Well that didn’t take long. After coming full circle from Reform to Canadian Alliance to back in bed with Brian Mulrony we see the dawn of the dead. The return of Brian Mulroney as Harper’s first order of business is to stack the senate again: http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=67203531-6e7a-4aa3-aad9-bd73cb3b961d
"Stephen Harper says he is ready to start appointing new senators to reflect his Conservative agenda if the Liberal-dominated upper house continues to be a thorn in the government's side." This is why giving him a majority is not a good idea.
"Harper reiterated that his party would like to abolish the Senate if his proposed reforms to the Red Chamber don't pass." Can you believe he actually said that? Remember my fears about Harper’s desire to govern sounds frighteningly familiar to a monarchy? Well here it is.
He boasts about wanting to abolish the Senate. I can't believe he really said that. There’s nothing wrong with an elected senate but there is something wrong with a stacked senate by creating new senate position just to ram your agenda through.
Let’s take a page from history and watch these two video clips remembering how Brian Mulrony stacked the senate to ram his GST through: http://archives.cbc.ca/on_this_day/09/27/
Remember Harpers Idol was the most hated politician in Canadian history. Remember the Reform party was born to break free of Mulrony’s pork barrel politics and his abandonment of democracy. We can see that the Reform party has been completely abandoned by Mr. Harper. The Reform party would call for more referendums of the people not stack the senate to ram your agenda through. A sad day for Canada indeed.
The only change we need to make is that the government will continue to the next election even if it has a non-confidence vote. Minority governments are a must now but we don’t need elections every year. That is a waste of money. As is appointing extra senators we don’t need.
Newfoundland Progressive Conservative Premier Danny Williams speaks out against Harper: http://anythingbutconservative.ca/
Declares his website was a success as the Conservatives were wiped out of Newfoundland: http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=2a8e3c8a-3ec4-46c5-b51f-8ec10156f9b9
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