Canada's political volcano..

[fajrdrako]

I, the person who usually avoids politics with all my might, just watched Prime Minister Steven Harper address the country with commodorified, iclysdale, auriaephiala and raynedaze.

To quote Patrick Nielsen Hayden, "Every so often, after long stretches of preternatural boringness, Canadian politics becomes, for brief periods, the greatest show on earth."

The Prime Minister had his say. "He seems to be confusing himself with the heritage of Canada," I said.

"He seems to be confusing himself with the government," said commodorified.

"L'état c'est moi, motherfuckers," said iclysdale succinctly. I do love my friends.

Stéphane Dion is making more sense in two sentences than Harper did in his whole speech. I've heard a lot of people say they don't trust Dion, but I find it amazing that, given Dion and Harper, anyone could choose Harper as the more trustworthy.

The journalists had to point out that Harper said nothing new. I'd say... he had almost no substance at all. He was just begging Canadians to keep him on.

It's not looking likely.

I'm planning to go to the rally on Parliament Hill tomorrow, to support the coalition.

Comments

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Have you been following Denis McGrath's blog lately? He posted recently about how one of his other fellow TV industry participants blogged about how it seems as if the "Coalition" was expecting the financial update to take the form it did and reacting surprisingly jubilantly.

The New Conservatives?

Not so much.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I don't think anyone could have anticipated things to happen the way they did, but some political crisis was bound to occur (especially given Harper's style of government) that would give them an opening for this eventuality. I'm not saying I disapprove - I like it - but I do suspect a decree of pre-planning dating back to the time of Harper's re-election.