Prime Minister Dion - I think not!
Dec 02
Posted: under general.
I know it’s hard to believe that Dion is not actually installed in 24 Sussex yet based on the gleeful reporting of most of the media, but it might be worth while just slowing down a bit and contemplating what would have to happen before that could take place.
Michaelle Jean, who received her symbolic position through an unelected patronage appointment, would have to conclude that a coalition depending on support from a party sworn to dismember Canada would be the only, and best, choice.
That, I believe, would be impossible for her to conclude.
If she decided that was her only recourse I venture that the life of the symbolic arrangement that keeps the Queen of England as our head of state would be over within hours, days or weeks.
I don’t believe Canadians, who just demonstrated through the ballot box exactly how they want the country run, would put up with the Governor General deciding that those votes do not count.
It’s worth remembering that the media on parliament hill a) don’t really have lives, and b) are almost 100 per cent liberal in their outlook, if not actually socialist. Thus we are treated to breathless news reports filled with words like “In The History of Canada” “Unprecedented” and “Never before Seen” which only means that the news media haven’t reported on such a thing for at least a year.
It’s too easy to look at the media and conclude that this trumped up naked grab for power by two of this countries’ most desperate politicians (and one shrewd yet amoral one) is a fait accompli. But I believe that when the first polls hit the streets we will find out most Canadians would far rather have another election than stand for this abuse of our parliamentary system.
The most sensible advice I’ve yet heard is this: Prime Minister Stephen Harper should go the Governor General tomorrow and request that she ask Stephane Dion to form a government.
This coalition of the wounded won’t last more than a few days or weeks. No one, not even Saint Obama, has any control over the current economic crisis. It will become immediately apparent that Dion is as inept at running a government as he was a campaign.
And Canadians will realize that as fun as minority government is to watch, we need a majority Conservative government to get on with the business of running the country.
