One thing we’ve learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is the depths of the contempt that Canada’s professional class has for the practice of politics, our political parties and even Parliament itself. In the early days of the pandemic, this contempt largely emanated from journalists, but it appears to have now spread to members of the political class themselves. There is little reason to think our institutions of democracy will ever recover.
But just as a war is far too serious a matter to leave to the generals, a pandemic is too important to leave to the experts. Every decision that has been made, every aspect of our response, has involved trade-offs, including the dreadful job of deciding who will live and who might die. These decisions are irreducibly political, and many of our leaders waited far too long to accept their ultimate responsibilities here. It is to our great discredit that we let them.
But that’s what happened this week, when Jagmeet Singh’s NDP gave its support to a Liberal motion to extend the suspension of regular sittings of the House of Commons until late September.
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Well, that's ironic...
I thought that they voted and the majority won. Sounds like government is working to me!
SundanceConstr1 Canada has gone authoritarian.
TREASON
What was the case when Harper suspended the Parliament under his minority Conservative leadership? What PM Trudeau did is democratic and falls within reason and goodwill.
Heil the Turd Reich!
So fun seeing the marxist Karens all wound up on here openly threatening our system of parliamentary democracy to fit their now thanks to COVID outdated agendas from the 2010’s ....
eamorris_ Wright the Queen
Alberta needs to get out of this mess.
The contempt for Parliament was best performance ever by Stephen Harper! King 🤴 of the prorogued Parliament. Has Conrad Black’s rag omitted mentioning him?
Calm down. Parliament is doing fine.
Maybe they have just embraced contemp of conservatives and their ways. As have many of us!
They sure have & shiwed contempt & disrespect to every CDN citizen also. They are a disgrace & should be removed from their positions immediately.
And the National Post has embraced ignorance and stupidity. (Not to mention foreign, hedge fund managing simpletons).
Soros funded chaos.
Canadians need to riot.
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