Proroguing Parliament is only one more example of Stephen Harper's lack of moral character. It's not the fact of prorogation per se; it can be a reasonable and acceptable action to take; the current problem is when it was done, and why.
By proroguing Parliament between Christmas and New Year's, when he knew few people (including the media who were deep into their year-end reviews and interviews) were paying attention, Harper revealed his consciousness that the public would not approve of his move, and therefore announced it in the sneakiest way possible. Even with that strategy, the public is beginning to react and protest. According to the CBC, as of January 5th, "More than 25,000 people have joined an anti-prorogation group on Facebook following Prime Minister Stephen Harper's decision to suspend Parliament for two months until after the Vancouver Winter Olympics."
Harper called for prorogation for two selfish, partisan, anti-democratic reasons--to give himself time to appoint more Senators (remember when he promised not to do so?) and more crucially, to shut down the Parliamentary committee which was investigating the Government's policies and actions regarding Afghanistan detainees.
Beyond that move, Harper is morally unfit to govern because he is a liar, a coward, and a bully.
He lied most grievously in 2008, when he characterized the Opposition's coalition as an attempt to 'overthrow' the Government, when his Government exists only with the support of Parliament, and that coalitions, while they may be rare in Canada, are perfectly legal and acceptable. Canadians do not elect governments; we elect MPs who then put their confidence in one or more parties in the House to form the Government. Among them, the Opposition parties represented a majority of the citizens of Canada and should have been allowed their chance to express the will of that majority.
Among many examples, Harper's cowardice is exhibited every time he hides behind the troops, by falsely accusing the Opposition of attacking our soldiers, when he knows full well it is he and Peter MacKay who are under attack regarding what was done, or not done, to protect Afghan detainees from torture.
Harper bullies civil servants who don't say or do what he wants them to, by viciously attacking them (Richard Colvin for his testimony regarding the Afghan detainees); reducing their budgets (Kevin Page, Parliamentary Budget Officer, whose reports give the lie to the Government's propaganda); firing them (Linda Keen, former president of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, who refused to allow the re-starting of the Chalk River reactor because she considered it unsafe); or refusing to re-appoint them.
Those not re-appointed include Paul Kennedy, head of the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP, for his scathing report on the RCMP's handling of the Robert Dziekanski case, and most significant of all, Peter Tinsley, chair of the Military Police Complaints Commission, who was conducting a tough investigation into what the Government knew, and when they knew it, regarding the treatment of the detainees. If Harper and Peter MacKay have nothing to hide, they would call a public inquiry into the handling of Afghan detainees, to settle the matter, once and for all.
Harper is a man who will say and do anything he thinks will aid him in his ruthless and relentless pursuit of a majority government, and the power to strip the federal government of all spending power for social programs, leaving the entire responsibility for health, education, welfare, and so forth to the provinces. By the time Harper gets through with this country, Canada will consist of little more 10 fiefdoms and a federal government scarcely worth the name. If he's ever given a majority, the man who wanted to 'firewall' Alberta will finally get his way ten times over.
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