Canada's in good company
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Submitted by LostClown on Sat, 12/06/2008 - 1:36am
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Here is a list of others who shut down parliament when it didn't agree with them:
1629 King Charles I in England
1799 Napoleon in France
1913: Victoriano Huerta in Mexico
1933: Adolf Hitler in Germany
1936 Fransisco Franco in Spain
1939: Benito Mussolini in Italy
1973: Augusto Pinochet in Chile
2008: Steven Harper in Canada
Precedent setting. pfffffffft
I was going to do a knitting post, but I have decided to prorogue it for the time being.
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My thanks to Canada for doing the impossible
Making American governance, by comparison, look somewhat less absurd than it did a week ago.
Hopefully the coalition can hang together and not fall to fighting within themselves. If they do not take this opportunity to get Harper out of power in January, they will all live to regret it.
I agree
It would be so sad if it fell apart. Bob Rae has been talking to anyone and everyone that it is still going strong.
Never Thought
I'd never even thought about the coalition falling apart before January. They kind of have to proceed with this if they hope to have any chance of winning future elections.
This post would make a great
This post would make a great coalition ad. LOL, great company Stevie is keeping.
I don't entirely trust the Liberals, they have capitulated and collaborated with Harper a lot in the last couple of years. Hopefully they will be able to keep the backbones they seem to have recently discovered and hold the coalition together. If not, all of the "62% majority" of Canadians is going to suffer a lot over the next couple of years under Il Duce.
I would LOVE to see that ad
Well it's kind of the same as the Dems except they've finally discovered their backbone. Let's hope they keep it.