Martin Is Going To Win...The May 19 Vote

Do we know the wording of what the MPs actually voted on, if it was merely procedural?

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Every time you complain about the moderators, god kills a kitten.

It was an amendment to a bill that was before comittee. The bill had tacked on to it by the committee something about "the government should resign". I haven't heard what the original bill was all about, but the main motion of it was to send it back to comittee. It was not a bill intorduced by parlament.

It was just procedural, but somehow the conservatives and the block managed to spin it so that it was a confidence issue, and not a freaking thing has been accomplished in parlament in the last year.

I'm getting really really sick of parlament. They have a freaking job to do, get to it!


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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill

I agree DR C, they should be docked their pay for lack of work, and I would bet if the media boycotted them, for a week or two, we would see some changes in attitude. They are playing to the media, but what they don't realize is that the people, are so disgusted with all of them, nobody wins. They were hired to govern, not fight over their egos! What a feeding frenzy, or is it a blood bath?

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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

I doubt that there is any way that Parliament can now become functional. We are likely to get an election whether we want one or not.

I wouldn't bet on it. We are getting an election that's for sure. Still, there's a good chance a no confidence motion can still be defeated.

But given the circus we've seen in recent weeks, can you imagine what the next several months will be like? At least we'll get a summer break if a vote is defeated on a matter of confidence in the government. At this point it's not a matter of confidence as no one could have any confidence at this point after what we've seen and heard in recent weeks. Right now it's a matter of do we have an election now or later on in the year?

In the National Post today they made mention of the fact that the President of Malwai was in the Commons gallery yesterday. Apparently they had a hard time explaining the situation to him as he couldn't understand how the opposition 'won' a vote of no confidence against the government and yet the government refused to step down. Anyways, his response to all of this was to say "there was a similar situation in Togo recently". We've gone from a banana republic to an African mess. What an utter embarrasement.

But apparently Canadians are okay with all of this. They'd much rather spend time at Lake Simcoe jet skiing or lounging around in the Beaches for the summer.

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"I pick the bones of what's been done. I'm the revolution when the door is shut. I bite the hand that slaps me senseless. I am far too Canadian" -SotW

No problem angus, how about you pony up the 300 odd million to run the election now so we can get essentially the same thing back in parliament. Sounds like money well spent, I'm sure all canadians want their tax money going to another "scam" such as another excercise in political deadlock.

Of course we shouldn't spend more money on an election this year. We shouldn't have spent money on an election last year. If Paul Martin had waited, the Gomery Inquiry would have begun sooner than it did, and therefore finished sooner than it will. Paul Martin could have easily have waited until this fall to call an election. But since the Liberals were high in the polls, he decided to call an election last summer, and now we're in the same boat this summer. We're going to end up paying for two elections when we should have only had one. But that's the Liberals for you.

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"I pick the bones of what's been done. I'm the revolution when the door is shut. I bite the hand that slaps me senseless. I am far too Canadian" -SotW