Tuesday, March 13, 2012

OH CANADA!

Since August I have frequently joked with friends, saying that I left Canada in their care for four years and came back to a country I am having a hard time recognizing. Sadly it seems to be less and less a joke.

As the circumstances surrounding the last election are revealed and more and more irregularities are brought to light - and not it would seem just with one political party - I am both appalled and ashamed of what is happening in my country.

Of course there has always been election jigging - that's one of the reasons the sale of liquor was banned on election day for many years. And there has always been dirty politics - given the nature of the game and the people playing it there always will be. But I honestly haven't seen it as blatantly exposed and at times almost flaunted in the face of the electorate by certain parties as it is now - and I've been a voter for the past 47 years.  

Given the revelations of the past weeks I question why the sitting Governor General has not exercised his constitutional powers to dissolve parliament and call another election.   It is obvious that there has been dishonesty and unlawful tampering beyond what we would expect even of our current sorry crop of politicians.  In a truly "just society" these law makers would be treated as the law breakers that they are and their parliamentary privileges revoked.

Seeing what is happening here I wonder how we can have both the audacity to lecture other countries on their election processes and to send "monitors" to oversee a "fair and democratic" election when we cannot guarantee one within our own borders.

For the first time in my life I cam ashamed of my country and of being a Canadian. 

13 March - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, the man who gave his name to the tea blend was born.

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6 comments:

Debra She Who Seeks said...

I don't think people realize how many of the PC's ideas/tactics come from the Tea Party/Republican party in the US. I bet that once they locate the key operative behind the robocalls, it will be an American who was up here "helping" the PCs during the election.

I don't think the GG has any real power in this situation. No matter what rhetoric surrounds that office as "head of state," the GG's legal powers are strictly limited to being a figurehead.

Willym said...

Debra as I understand it the GG does have the power to dissolve parliament - it is an old right and never used but I believe it is still there.

Judy said...

So much is happening in politics these days that is corrupt...sorry to hear that it is happening up there to our North as well as here in the U.S...

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