Alors voici un petit truc que j'ai fait ce soir sur le site Wordle.net. Le tout est inspiré du discours "Audacity of Hope" de Barack Obama, à la convention 2004 du Parti démocrate américain.
In our democratic system here in Canada, we have three main branches. Judiciary, legislative, and executive. The judiciary is of course, the courts; the legislative is the Parliament, and the executive is the government.
It is well known that the Parliament is the paramount of the democratic system. The Parliament represents the people, and the people have the power to decide what to do with this country. Technically, any motion that the Parliament adopts, such as, let's say, an instruction to be followed by the executive (the Government), should be followed.
On paper, the Parliament should be the highest authority, and the executive should not be able to reject an order from the assembly.
Yet, it seems that Harper's vision of the order of power in a democracy is somewhat skewed. After a motion adopted by all three opposition parties, to obtain access under the Information act to a number of memos and documents concerning the transfer of Afghan detainees to the local authorities, the Government refused to comply with the will of the House, invoking "national security".
This Government needs to be accountable, and in a system like ours, what is there left if our Parliament doesn't even have power? Stephen Harper already proved he could bypass democracy by proroguing Parliament and sending MPs home when he sees fit; the first time during a political crisis where his government was going to be pushed out by a coalition of the Liberals and the NDP (with the support of the Bloc), and the second one because he felt the growing pressure of many issues, such as the Afghan detainee transfers.
Not only did the King decided to close the debate without consulting anyone, but he now decided that these documents that everybody wants to see, the Parliament isn't going to decide if they should or should not see them. A retired judge from the Supreme Court will. A third party, a nobody in this debate will come in, and tell the people "No, you can't have that."
"No, you're not allowed to know."
It it simple, we decided to send our MPs at the Hill. We decided to send them there to work. We did not give Harper a majority government. The PM has to learn he needs to compose with a minority government, and he needs to start acting like he's governing one; by compromise and by conciliation.
It is well known that the Parliament is the paramount of the democratic system. The Parliament represents the people, and the people have the power to decide what to do with this country. Technically, any motion that the Parliament adopts, such as, let's say, an instruction to be followed by the executive (the Government), should be followed.
On paper, the Parliament should be the highest authority, and the executive should not be able to reject an order from the assembly.
Yet, it seems that Harper's vision of the order of power in a democracy is somewhat skewed. After a motion adopted by all three opposition parties, to obtain access under the Information act to a number of memos and documents concerning the transfer of Afghan detainees to the local authorities, the Government refused to comply with the will of the House, invoking "national security".
This Government needs to be accountable, and in a system like ours, what is there left if our Parliament doesn't even have power? Stephen Harper already proved he could bypass democracy by proroguing Parliament and sending MPs home when he sees fit; the first time during a political crisis where his government was going to be pushed out by a coalition of the Liberals and the NDP (with the support of the Bloc), and the second one because he felt the growing pressure of many issues, such as the Afghan detainee transfers.
Not only did the King decided to close the debate without consulting anyone, but he now decided that these documents that everybody wants to see, the Parliament isn't going to decide if they should or should not see them. A retired judge from the Supreme Court will. A third party, a nobody in this debate will come in, and tell the people "No, you can't have that."
"No, you're not allowed to know."
It it simple, we decided to send our MPs at the Hill. We decided to send them there to work. We did not give Harper a majority government. The PM has to learn he needs to compose with a minority government, and he needs to start acting like he's governing one; by compromise and by conciliation.
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time
- Abraham Lincoln
Licensed under CC-BY-SAWe can try to understand that.
And then, two years later, Harper is in the hot seat again, but not because some coalition run by the Liberals is turning up the heat.
The heat is turning up because the Liberals are pushing for answers in regards to the Afghan detainees torture files. The matter is being debated before a committee, and the opposition keeps hammering the requests to have access to the documents pertinent to the Afghan detainees transfers to the local authorities.
The MPs went home and the next morning, they learned they didn't have to go to work. The Prime Minister was proroguing, once again. The reason? To let the Government refocus on the current state of the affairs, and let the country enjoy the spirit of the Olympics.
About those Olympics, it seems that since March 3rd, if you're listening to CPAC, you get the same thing over and over again. You hear Stephen Harper just praising the atheletes performances, and how Canada broke records, and our athletes showed courage and determination. Over and over again!
I'm still debating whether this is a broadcast issue or if Harper is really just serving us réchauffé.
Wait, is this really a question?
Essentially, Harper, not only did he prorogue, not only did he sent everyone going home, just decreting that decision-making time was over, but now that Parliament is back in session, he adds insult to injury and decides to continue short-circuiting. The documents that the opposition has been reclaiming for three months will go to a retired judge, who will "examine and review the files" and determine what documents can be given to the opposition, without compromising the safety of Canada and the safety of the mission.
We need to understand something; Canada is a democracy. We, the people, have elected Members of Parliament in each of our 308 ridings, across Canada, and we gave them the mandate to run this country and to decide. They are the people who have to decide, not one random person, who is, from what we saw, willing to do anything to keep his throne as long as possible.
Les personnes qui suivent ce blog de près (hi Mom!) remarqueront que les entrées qui autrefois se trouvaient ici ont maintenant été effacés. En effet, une remise à neuf s'impose.
Je vous souhaite donc la bienvenue sur mon blog, Exercises de la pensée. Ici, comme le sous-titre l'indique, j'élabore, je critique; je pense, donc, je suis. Cliché, je sais.
C'est donc ici que je vous partagerai mes coups de gueule, mes opinions, mes flèches à l'endroit des dirigeants et autres. Je vous invite donc à me suivre, à lire, et bien sûr, si le coeur vous en dit, à me répondre! Je vous invite à engager la discussion! (via les commentaires sur ce blogue, ou, vous pouvez toujours m'écrire à @LeDeenoe sur Twitter!)
Et bien sûr, il y'aura les anecdotes, les messages crétins, etc. Je vais quand même essayer de garder ça pertinent.
Notez bien, toutefois, je n'écrirai pas toujours dans la langue de Molière. Ça va peut-être vous faire chier, mais bon, c'est comme ça. Je vais essayer de balancer toutefois.
Allez, je m'y lance!
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