Report from Parliament's Hill - Sept. 4th, 2009
By Prince George - Peace River M.P. Jay Hill
Friday, September 04, 2009 03:44 AM
“Canadians Don’t Want Another Election”
Michael Ignatieff just doesn’t get it. Canadians don’t want an election less than a year after the last one.
More importantly, a federal election will most certainly stall the economic recovery that our nation has just begun to experience. In fact, the markets and the Canadian dollar dropped immediately after Mr. Ignatieff held his press conference this week to announce he was determined to bring down our Conservative Government and prompt an election this fall.
Mr. Ignatieff is creating uncertainty and instability with just the threat of an election. If an actual election campaign were to take place, all federal legislative and economic business would virtually come to a halt for three months. That’s bad for the country at this fiscally-critical time and it’s bad for the pocketbooks of Canadians.
So why are the Ignatieff Liberals pushing an unwanted election on Canadians – a pointless exercise that will cost taxpayers $350-million?
First, our Conservative Government’s Economic Action Plan is working! It’s no coincidence that the day before Mr. Ignatieff demanded an election, Statistics Canada released its figures demonstrating that Canada’s economy grew in June. This represents an important light at the end of the tunnel amidst this serious global recession. While our economy has suffered a blow, we have fared better than most nations thanks to our Government’s policies.
However, what’s good news for the nation is not good news for Mr. Ignatieff’s political aspirations. He can’t afford to wait for another set of positive economic figures to be released.
The rate of federally-stimulated economic activity taking place throughout Canada the past few months is unprecedented. Federal investments in infrastructure and business are creating new jobs and long-term opportunities for growth all across the nation.
The second reason Mr. Ignatieff wants to trigger an election now is that he’s trying to hang on to his majority in the Senate. He has been using the Liberals in the Senate to block important justice reforms passed by Canada’s duly-elected Members of Parliament. In the New Year, as more Senators retire, Mr. Ignatieff will lose his power to block the will of Canadians using the Red Chamber.
Thirdly, if he waits until 2010, Canadians may have even more reason to feel good about themselves and our country. History has demonstrated that voters are less likely to vote for change and against an incumbent government when feeling patriotic … and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics in February will undoubtedly inflame a greater sense of patriotism and excitement across the country.
After our Conservative Government proved we are able to govern responsibly and with cooperation by becoming the longest-serving minority parliament in Canadian history, Canadians returned us to power last October with a strengthened mandate. No one in the REAL WORLD, certainly not in Prince George-Peace River wants another election campaign.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, our Cabinet and our MPs will not be distracted by Mr. Ignatieff’s call for an opportunistic election. We remain focussed on our number one priority: protecting Canada’s economy and continuing to implement stimulus measures that will secure hope and prosperity for Canadians.
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Posted by: Eagleone on September 4 2009 5:11 AM
I've been reading a lot of Russian and Soviet history lately. Its a despicable history to be sure from the bolshevik revolution to the show trials under Stalin, and subsiquent purges that saw the entire ruling class and social class summery executed without trial and replaced by those that were loyal to the Stalinist state... and the collectivizations of farm land that killed tens of millions through starvation, and the more commonly known things like the gulag, and the conintual hunt for traitors and 'terrorist' condemned from a snitch with a vendetta or for having an opinion of their own. It strikes me that its the same playrights of the Soviet Union that are our central actors in global affairs today... they never lost the cold war, they were the victors... the Russian people lost the cold war I guess one could argue, but the playwrights of the show trials have never had to account for their crimes and under the illusion of a soviet collapse are still out their with all their power walking in different suits through other corridors of power. Some people call them neo-cons and others relate them to the banksters, the Russian mafia, or the globalist multinational corporate monopolists.
The point being is that those people got their power to subject hundreds of millions to a degraded life of fear and ethnically cleansed through starvation tens of millions more, and summarily executed with out trial hundreds of thousands more. Very real crimes in recent history all motivated by the ability of a governing power to use fear of a hypothetical threat to retain power and consolidate public policy that was counter to the best interests of a people whom were miss informed at every step.
IMO one look at the WTC#7... and subsequent anthrax attacks... followed by the 'patriot act' and the US Federal Rzeserve asset bubble ponzi scheme shenanigans... and subsequent looting of the US treasury... all strongly indicate to me that the hidden hand isn't so hidden anymore and with crimes that large they will stop at nothing to avoid accountability.
The current economic threat to the global economy is entirely predictible. One only has to closely look at the US Federal Reserve and what they say and do and what their policies are. They print the money that makes the world go around and their money is nothing but paper with trust. If they don't have trust and transparency, then they become the threat by human nature. Canada and Canadian policy has no effect on their actions other than to react. Canadians have had enough of not being consulted on major policy changes in this country and I don't think it is proper to tell Canadians when they should and shuld not have a say in the direction of their country.
The decision lies with the leaders of the opposition where it should. Its irrelevant what Canadians think IMO as per the triggering of a no confidence vote by the opposition parties. The opposition leaders are the ones that are informed and will stand accountable for their decisions to the voters... voters who will then in a hypothetical democracy become informed of the issues where a decision can be made through the election.
IMO the recover so far has been purely financial and purely through fake money created by the US Federal Reserve for the purpose of making the apperance of green shoots to extend their crimes a little further in the hope they can fool everyone. China doesn't buy it and announced last week they are calling all the $500 trillion in US derivatives a fraud on the international system and refuse to honor those contracts. That could be the end of the US Federal Reserve ponzi scheme and there is nothing either Canadian political party can do to stop or mitigate that.
This Canadian supports an election even if I choose not to vote in it for lack of choice. The process is what really counts.