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For the second time, Governor General Michaëlle Jean has acceded to Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s request to prorogue Parliament. This is dangerous, to say the least, as on both occasions Mr. Harper used prorogation to dodge accountability and to retain power. Given this, I am forced to conclude that Governor General Michaëlle Jean is weak, incompetent, or colluding with Mr. Harper.

Canada is facing serious difficulties on many fronts, from a still faltering economy to climate change to world issues (we are still at war in Afghanistan, last time I checked), so the idea of Parliament taking a two-month holiday is inappropriate at best, dangerous more accurately.

I am no constitutional scholar. I am simply a practical man seeing that Canada’s democracy is not functioning well, and may in fact be in danger. Some constitutional scholars think the same: “parliamentary democracy is in danger.”
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Wasn’t it just one year ago that the Harper government was telling us we would receive more tax cuts due to the large surplus?

However, on November 19, 2008, Michaelle Jean (our Governor General) strongly hinted that Canada would be facing a deficit in the short term.

“Ongoing, unsustainable deficits are quite rightly unacceptable to Canadians. These structural deficits must never return. At the same time, in a historic global downturn, it would be misguided to commit to a balanced budget in the short term at any cost…”

The excuse is that we are in a global financial crisis and thus a deficit can not be avoided, but wasn’t it just recently (in his election campaign) that Harper promised Canada would not be affected. I guess one month after being elected is a long enough wait before breaking the promises that likely swayed a lot of voters on Election Day.

Let’s just examine some of the things Harper told us before the election:
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