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Edited: January 15th, 2010

Harper, pundits, & democracy – oh my!

Every once and a while something happens in Canadian politics that’s just so goddamn crazy that one can’t but replace their comfortable numbness with burning shame. This shame, of course, stems from Prime Minister Harper’s recent prorogation of Parliament- a move so brazenly cynical that even Harper’s former chief of staff calls it ‘childish.’ When I first heard about it on the news, I mistakenly thought the newscaster said, ‘the Prime Minister has scuttled parliament so that the government can focus on watching the Olympics,’ which, though absurd, is far better than the final rationale of needing to ‘get important work done.’
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Edited: January 12th, 2010