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Thursday, December 04, 2008

BAD DECISION

The GG has agreed to grant the request of the PM to prorogue parliament despite the fact that the house of commons has lost confidence in the government and despite the fact that they have formally agreed to govern as a coalition.

I really don't understand this. Rather than accepting the lack of confidence and a democratically elected coalition the GG has decided to allow the government to survive (despite no confidence), without democratic parliamentary proceedings.

So as a result we now have a government that consists of a cabinet, suspended parliament and an ignored offer to form a coalition (and keep parliament working) of democratically elected members.

This is not good. Jan 26th can't come soon enough. At that point we'll have another attempt at a coalition which I hope the GG will have the sense to accept this time, or the coalition will fall apart leading to harper continuing in aminorty situation or an election.

Time will tell but the GG made a bad call on this one.

Cheers,

P

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