Have your Cake and Eat it Too - Opposition Picks Election Date

In what likely go down as one of the more stupid schemes/manoeuvres leveled in parliament, the NDP wants to pick the date of the next election. Apparentely, the Liberal party is corrupt; just not corrupt enough to have a election over the christmas holidays.

Constitutional specialists acknowledged they were scratching their heads over the idea of opposition MPs rallying around a motion that indirectly suggests they have lost confidence in the government, and yet they are willing to let the Liberals govern for another month or two.

“There’s something lacking in it,” said Ned Franks, professor emeritus at Queen’s University in Kingston. “It’s not the first time in Canadian politics that obfuscation has been a substitute for action,” he said.

Lacking? I’d say it was more that just lacking - it’s closer to limp. Which is about as much as I can say for most of the federal leaders in Ottawa. I cannot fathom why being scared of the voters had become a trait of our leaders. It’s utterly pathetic.