Well it was, if not nice, then ok while it lasted, but yeah, we are having a sort of “coup” up here in Canada, just weeks after an election in which the Conservatives won a slightly strengthened majority.
See, the way the Parliamentary system “works” is: like Israel and Italy, the opposition parties, when combined, often outnumber the ruling party in terms of seats. So they can band together into coalitions and overthrow the “real” government.
And we all know what bastions of democratic sanity and peace those Italian and Israeli parliaments are!
This suddenly jeopardizes our year long fight to reform the Canadian Human Rights Commissions and repeal Section 13 with its the notorious “hate speech” “likely” clause, a fight that was finally gaining traction and momentum a few days ago…
Ugh.
All this proves what I’ve been saying all along, in essays like “The Donkey in the Bathtub”: we can’t depend upon who is “in charge” in Ottawa to help us fight and win. We must change our culture, not the laws, and simply defy and violate Section 13 into obscurity.
An Ottawa insider who requested anonymity wrote me this morning:
I know you aren’t big on party politics, I don’t blame you. But this coup to replace Harper will matter to your readers in some important ways.
[The opposition] Dion, the Liberals, NDP and Bloc are all against changes to the [Canadian Human Rights Commissions].
Read More...Harper may be moving slowly but change will come. Meanwhile, Dion campaigned on making women a protected group for hate crimes and hate speech meaning the only people not covered would be white, Christian males.
