Something in Canada stinks right now.
We, the people, through our elected MPs have just ejected a government for contempt of parliament for the first time in our history, and I am led to believe for the first time in the centuries of the British parliamentary system.
The Prime Minister of this historically disgraced government then comes before the cameras in the House of Commons and refers to the carefully crafted election-provoking budget as being the cause of his defeat, and not one word about the contempt charges.
Thus within minutes of being ejected for contempt he is already trying to mislead the Canadian people again with talk of budgets and non-existent coalitions.
For me there should be a very clear result of this contempt judgement and that is that any member of the contemptuous government should be barred from running for a seat in the House of Commons for a minimum of one cycle of parliament, and should have their salaries and pensions suspended during that time frame. “Let the punishment fit the crime and do the time”.
Since this Prime Minister and his Reform/Alliance coalition party refuse to even acknowledge that they could have done anything in contempt of parliament and therefore the people of Canada, it must be up to us as voters to give them that “time out” and reject all of them at the polls on May 2, 2011.
I am for freedom, democracy and respect for the people of Canada, here and abroad.
Jeremy Arney
Victoria, B.C.
