If you're a political junkie like me, or like Rick Mercer for instance, you must jumping up and down like a jack russel f--king terrier.
What can we say about this whole "political crisis" in Ottawa. Wow.
Dear journalists, it's not a political crisis, per say, it's called democracy.
Harper's government, through Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's economic update, have introduced three amazingly damaging measures to help our economy. These measures are;
- Remove public funding for political parties
Because we can. The conservatives go away and make a very bold partisan statement; our war machine is strong. They have outranked the Liberals in term of financing, and now they will dig their crave, once and for all, by increasing their debt. Like that, they are practically assured a majority next time we go to the polls.
But it's not just about the Liberals. What about the Bloc? And the NDP? They heavily rely on public funding. Let's take the NDP for example; demographically, the higher class, the ones who have more money to spare, tend to support the right-wing, the Conservative, and they are more apt and incline to give money to whichever political party they are supporting, whereas the NDP, on the other hand, tends to receive support from the lower class, with a tighter budget, who really can't afford to even give five dollars to a political party, whether or not it's 75% deductible (because you have to wait a couple of months to get that 75% back. They need their money, now.)
Essentially, the problem is that the Conservative, because they're strong, are now pushing the little guys down and they are heavily silencing democracy.
- Removal of the right to strike or the right to arbitration for federal employees AND not honoring previous collective agreements
After silencing democracy, we're keeping the slaves in line, and making sure they can't raise their voice. And, like that wasn't enough, we decide to go back on what we already promised our little loyal workers.
Therefore, the opposition has decided to step up, and fight for democracy. What they've been asking makes sense.
The opposition asks for the government to back down on these measures, and, for the Hon. Jim Flaherty to come up with a real plan that will actually help the Canadian economy. So far, the government have only agreed to back down on ONE measure.
Therefore, the opposition will use their RIGHT, and they will step up for Canadians, by voicing that they hereby have no longer confidence in the Government; but, instead of driving the country into another costly election, they are asking for a chance to form what they think is a solid, coalition government, to actually solve this economy.
Analysts say that it will be very hard to get the Bloc to work with this coalition; I tend to think otherwise. Quebec's economy will probably be highly affected by this economic crisis, and the goal of this coalition government will not be to undertake humungous socialist reforms in Canada, or to fix all the damage that Harper's government has done; this coalition's goal is to ensure the economy suffers as less as possible, because, let's face it, we are in an economic crisis, and whoever runs this country, this person or this party will not be able to avoid the recession, whatsoever.
The next ten days will be very interesting. Stephen Harper has lost the confidence of Canadians and of the House, and he will have a very tough time getting it back. We have to hope that Harper will not find a way to buy time or, at the very least, that he will start respecting the people's will.
Us, Canadians, refused to give Harper a majority; we gave him a minority government for a reason; it might be time for Harper to start running his Government like a minority.
