The Conservative party finally managed to introduce a non-confidence motion into Parliament. The vote is set for May 18th. This has been quite a feat, getting any motion put forward, since the Liberal government has cancelled all Opposition days (days in which the Official Opposition may put forward motions) in the House for the forseeable future.
The Liberals fought tooth and nail to have this motion, which calls for the Commons Finance comittee to recommend that the government resign, declared out of Order. Fortunately for all Canadians, the Speaker of the House ruled the motion in Order. Unfortunately, the Liberal House leader, Tony Valeri, has declared that the Liberals will not step down and call an election if this motion should pass.
This is a travesty; one would expect such behaviour from a thugocracy like that of Mugabe in Zimbabwe, not from a liberal democracy.
The level of corruption in the Canadian government is so pervasive as to be mind-numbing: government contracts awarded to government-friendly PR firms for little or no work done, with millions of dollars kicked back into Liberal Party coffers; billions of dollars unaccounted-for in funds beyond the reach of the Auditor-General; ties between the Cabinet and the Mafia; a state-run broadcaster (the CBC) acting as the government's propoganda arm; the government filibustering its own budget; now the government vowing to ignore a non-confidence motion which it will surely lose. No wonder the Liberals want to keep track of everybody's rifles (in a $2 million program which somehow mushroomed to $2 billion). What's next? Proroguing Parliament? Martial Law?
Andrew Coyne figures we may have to all start wearing orange scarves. Perhaps it is time for a new Canadian flag:
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