Hello friends,
I am now done school, which leaves me with significantly more time to blog obnoxiously about whatever I think. Here is my first installment.
Michael Moore has hired our recently dismissed Senate page, Brigette DePape. Good for him. He is a goon, and he should hire lots of goons to surround him for his ridiculous crass political commentary.
As for Ms. DePape, I wonder where she was five weeks ago, because I’ve never heard of her. Usually if someone is so interested in defeating a political candidate, they implicate themselves in an electoral campaign.
Say what you will about Prime Minister Harper (and I have been known to); he won. He has his majority, and it is all over but the crying. Jack Layton doesn’t seem to get it. He still gives speeches about compromise and “working together” and he issues press releases saying he hopes the government will default on their own election promises to implement NDP policies. Equally, DePape doesn’t seem to understand that the contest is over. Harper is one, and her stunts do nothing to prevent Harper from doing what he pleases with the country he now unquestionably rules.
More to the point, DePape has missed the bus oh Harper opposition. It isn’t just that he’s a neo-conservative, see. He’s not just a retroactive deficit lover whose goal in life is to leave the federal government with no powers whatsoever. That is, per se, a legitimate (if assinine) political position one can take, and he was elected. The big thing is that Mr. Harper has shown continued disrespect for Canada and its institutions. He has promoted former Ontario ministers like Tony Clement and John Baird who were found in contempt by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. In the last session, Speaker Milliken twice found the government prima facie in contempt, firstly on its refusal to release documents in respect of detainees in Afghanistan, secondly in respect of refusal to disclose the costing of crime legislation.
Agree with the Harper priorities or not, it is beyond dispute that he flouted the rules, conventions, falling afoul of the majority of Canadians, represented by their elected members of Parliament. He, and all his ministers, were found guilty of contempt. Now do you think, Ms. DePape, that the appropriate way to highlight how we, the illuminated majority that oppose Mr. Harper, are above that base criminality of contempt, is to flout the rules of Parliament ourselves?
You may have earned some notoriety for your brazen antics, but by breaking your obligations to your employer and ignoring the rules of the upper chamber you have also lost the trust of those who might have joined you in opposing the prime minister. A popular film maker may have hired you, but don’t be surprised when he asks you to sign a very comprehensive non-disclosure agreement.
