Local MP In Ottawa For Non-Confidence Vote

Sunday, November 27, 2005 02:01 PM

Cariboo-Prince George M.P. Dick Harris flew into Ottawa Sunday afternoon in preparation for Monday's vote, which is expected to topple the Liberal minority government.

The Conservative M.P. says, "the entire day in the house leads up to the vote at the end of the day on the Supply Day motion that was put forward last Thursday which read, sort of, that this house has lost confidence in the government."

Harris says he doesn't believe there's any stopping the vote, despite the Prime Minister's calls in Vancouver today to delay the call to allow voters to go to the polls in March, rather than January. "The rhetoric about putting off 'til March is just simply an attempt to try and buy some more time."

He says, "This an apportunity to put an end to the relentless and wanton spending that's going on by the Liberals, right now. I mean, someone appropriately said -- "the Liberals are spending now just like a hundred monkeys on drugs writing cheques" -- and I think that's an appropriate description."

As for whether his constituents have an appetite for an election, with the municipal vote just over and the holidays fast-approaching, Harris says he won't be out actively campaigning until after January 2nd. He'll arrive back in the riding on Wednesday, "I think it's a time to celebrate Christmas and family and the last thing you want is a politician knocking on your door and that's not going to happen in my riding by me, that's for sure."

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Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2005 02:01 PM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: Chester on November 27 2005 8:39 PM

Spending out of control again. Where is this going to end? Is it possible that an election is really going to change the problems we face?

So much time and money wasted to go through this so called democratic process of elections. For what? To put a few more politicians on pension and line up some new ones at the trough. The charade we watch from month to month of our Federal leaders just makes my gut wrench.

I don't have the solution.

We tried to change the voting and election process in BC recently and the majority still fear change more than what we have currently. The current system doesn't allow us to fairly be represented.

Fear mongering, gag laws, union controls, spending our tax dollars to fund political campaigning makes it almost impossible to make any significant changes to the way we run our country.

Those in power continue to use their laws, our money and their fear tactics to keep us from changing the guard.

Maybe the National House of Prayer in Ottawa will have more effect than our feeble attempts to initiate change. Chester

Posted by: owl on November 28 2005 12:58 AM

I absolutely detest governments that are able to pay down the debt we all owe ...

Seems that people in PG agree since they voted back a City Council that spends, spends, spends ..... all on the assumption that they will get assistance from Ottawa and the Province .....

So we vote for a government that is not going to pay down the debt plus give money to municipalities for infrastructure .....

Great thinking ...!!!!! We get to pay off the local debt ourselves rather than letting the rest of Canada help with it ....

We get to give Corporations a big tax break so that we will have less unemployment ...

hmmm ... seems to me that unemployment is the lowest it has been for some 30 years and we have a hard time getting qualified people ....

On top of that, we are the ones creating the wealth by working in the middle of nowhere with few amenities of a civilized society so that others can partake in culture and skiing at Whistler .... and if we are creating wealth for the province, we are also creating wealth for the country .....

Only people in PG can be so dumb as to not take money which is due to us while giving money to those living south of us so that they can live the life of Riley ...

Posted by: owl on November 28 2005 1:04 AM

"spending our tax dollars to fund political campaigning"

As if that is that anything new!!!!

Everytime one of us give to a federal or provincial political party we can deduct a good portion of that directly off the net income tax payable. If that is not spending our income tax dollars to fund political campaigning, I do not know what it is ..... the biggest scandal of all has been directly under our very noses and no one seems to notice or care ....

Posted by: Chadermando on November 29 2005 1:45 AM

Chester I respectfully request a retraction of one of your remarks.

Chester said, "We tried to change the voting and election process in BC recently and the majority still fear change more than what we have currently."

That is a completely false statement.

59% of the people in BC voted for the new BC-STV voteing system. Moreover 77 of 79 ridings in the province voted with a majority for the new system and the only two ridings (Kamloops) that did not failed by less then 1%.

Gordon Campbell is the one that set a threshold above the majority to 60%. That does not make 60% a majority.