Today's Question period

[oneoff]

And half the House was ecstatic about an incomprehensible reply.

Hang your heads in shame.

At least no agriville readers have yet "cheer"ed.

[farmaholic]

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Dysfunctional....

Disrespectful....

Defiant....

Mulcair went out on a limb calling out House Speaker Sheer.

[foragefarmer]

Mike Duffy's trial starts April 7, 2015. One by one the Con's will be called to the stand, and will do what ever it takes to save their own sorry asses. Harper himself my have to get his own over weight body into the box and testify. Justice will be served.

Harper's own hired gunman will bring him down. Karma is so sweet

[Mjolnir]

Yet, not a peep about the several Liberal senators that have been caught cheating and stealing.
With Duffy at least the money was paid back.

[foragefarmer]

Mjolnir

All cheats and crooks should be brought to justice. So are you saying all criminal charges against Duffy should be dropped because Harper's right hand man paid back money Duffy cheated taxpayer out of? Are you serious?

Mjolnir, typical Con answer point fingers at other people.

[oneoff]

Today the speaker of the House informed Canadians and their elected representatives that they should have no expectations of receiving an answer to any questions presented during question period. Let alone "satisfactory" answers
The speaker made it clear that there would be repercussions if his biases were questioned. He also defended doing nothing about the governing party deciding to ignore questions that were decided would not be entertained.

The question is if the founders of this nation intended that such behavior in Parlament was to be the way business would be conducted.

If not; then in what time period did politicians diverge from "Question/Answer Period" to strictly question peiod when it was considered expedient. Because the speaker never contemplated that possible founding principal. Those were days of nation building; and we are now seemingly in the demolition stage of democacy.

I'm thinking there is so much more that Parliament could be.

But no intention by Conservatives to weaken their grasp on the levers of power. The fortunate thing is that the electorate does occassionally uncerimoniously damp despots. And they will perhaps hold a wake and wonder how they became so out of tune with their former electorate.

[rockpile]

For a real eye opener, google a question period in the British House of Commons. Questions are posed in very respectable ways, often with humour and satire, and answered in kind but almost always with actual real answers. And the PM is not immune, even from his own Party. This bullshit we have here is an insult to the rights of average citizens to their right to be informed. If you follow Tom Flanagan,who guided Harper to his first victory in 2006, he stated in his book about Harper that the CPC took the Machavallian (sp) that the ends justify the means. And they've taken it to the level where there is complete contempt for the rules of Parliament, disclosure, transparency and responsibility to the electorate. Too bad, because they campaigned on the theme of responsible government, openness and grass roots representation. They blew it, like Peter Fonda said in Easy Rider.

[sumdumguy]

Do you think that is why I get an e-mail a day from the Conservative party asking for money, to shore up their slush fund. Not to mention how many phone calls. Give me a break. You want to dismantle every program out West and then call on the Westerners to ante up. Of course, I'll get right on it.

[bucket]

They call you. Wow.

I call Ottawa regularly and no one returns calls.

[farmaholic]

bucket, Try donating some money to their political party first...;-0