Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Too Meek to Speak
Unsurprisingly, the motion acknowledging that "...the Québécois form a nation within a united Canada" passed without any wavering from the vast majority of MP's who, like a heard of cattle, followed their respective leaders down a another Constitutional path to wherever and voted in favour of the motion.
Yet, not one of the mindless bovine could define "nation" or "Québécois" or any potential booby traps the motion might trigger in the future. However, what this motion did do was define the majority of MP's, particularly Conservatives, as our unworthy representatives in Ottawa. Conservatives were "ordered" to vote in favour of the motion or at worst, simply abstain. So much for representation by the people for the people.
Other than 15 Liberals and one Independent who voted according to their conscience or their constituents' wishes, 265 MP's apparently ignored their constituents given a recent Leger poll suggested 77% of Canadians were not in favor of the motion. The remainder of MP's either abstained, were not present, or were paired up.
The only B.C. MP's who voted against the motion were Don Bell, Raymond Chan and Hedy Fry - all Liberals. Good thing they're not Conservatives or they'd probably be sitting with Garth Turner as Independents.
The moral of this story might be to vote in future elections for the person, regardless of party, who likely has the mental capacity to remember who voted for them and are not too meek to speak up in Parliament.
Yet, not one of the mindless bovine could define "nation" or "Québécois" or any potential booby traps the motion might trigger in the future. However, what this motion did do was define the majority of MP's, particularly Conservatives, as our unworthy representatives in Ottawa. Conservatives were "ordered" to vote in favour of the motion or at worst, simply abstain. So much for representation by the people for the people.
Other than 15 Liberals and one Independent who voted according to their conscience or their constituents' wishes, 265 MP's apparently ignored their constituents given a recent Leger poll suggested 77% of Canadians were not in favor of the motion. The remainder of MP's either abstained, were not present, or were paired up.
The only B.C. MP's who voted against the motion were Don Bell, Raymond Chan and Hedy Fry - all Liberals. Good thing they're not Conservatives or they'd probably be sitting with Garth Turner as Independents.
The moral of this story might be to vote in future elections for the person, regardless of party, who likely has the mental capacity to remember who voted for them and are not too meek to speak up in Parliament.
Labels: general politics, Québécois
