Parliamentary page sacrifices her job for anti-Harper protest
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WE'RE talking from both sides of our face????
Funny about that......what the hell do you think the page was engaged in, if not contempt of Parliament?
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I love this piece! Says it all, so well.
She didn't really piss me off, I have the utmost sympathy for idealistic young minds.....I was pretty far left as well, when I was young......although I was starting to develop a brain at her age.
I needed a boot in the arse as well.....to get my brain started.
The people that should know better but still support her dishonourable, self-absorbed contempt of our democratic institutions are what pisses me off.
It's mere theatrics and really the only thing the opposition has left. The big bad evil agenda rhetoric has been uncovered and in four years they (the left) won't have a lot to campaign on if they don't get some new ideas.
As far as ideas go, this wasn't a particularly smart one, she'll get the same 15 minutes as the guy who hit Chretien in the face with a pie.
I'm not too pleasesd with our resources being usurped by Europe, Asia, and the rest of North America for pennies on the dollar either, while the taxes on labour are used to run the nation.
It was "free trade" that gave us slavery in America, social and economic chaos in India and an entire nation fored into a crippling drug habit in China,the near genocide of a native people, a war with America and a civil war in America.
158 "Free Trade" deals aer on Harper's desk.
If you're a historian you know all about Lord Palmerston,free trade it's global rammifications.
It was "free trade" that gave us slavery in America, social and economic chaos in India and an entire nation fored into a crippling drug habit in China,the near genocide of a native people, a war with America and a civil war in America.
158 "Free Trade" deals aer on Harper's desk.
If you're a historian you know all about Lord Palmerston,free trade it's global rammifications.
Ohhh, me thinks that her education in that area has already begun with this move.
I wonder if she'll be screaming about equal rights and/or discrimination in a few years when she realizes that her education will yield solitary opportunities of flipping burgers or being a 30-something squeegee kid.
Yeah.... She would make a good PM. Isn't that the sentence for Contempt of Parliament?
Totally inappropriate. Even if she were protesting a particular policy it would still have been inappropriate. There is a civilized way in which to share ideas. But the fact that she was not protesting any particular policy, but rather a person, that constituted nothing more than a personal attack, making it even more inappropriate. She can't call herself educated.
She would have to actually be in Parliament first... The sentence for this retard is just contempt.
He may be a scmuck, but what she did did nothing to further her cause. In fact, it will likely turn more people against her. She likely even hurt her cause with such a stunt.
In each riding , the plurality wins. Now I could agree with removing party names from ballots to make it clearer, but that's a separate matter.
I agree. I may not have checked my ballot for lack of a decent candidate, but at least I did read up on each candidate, even visited their campaign offices, and asked questions, and finally did at least show up at the poll and handed in a ballot, as blank as it may have been.
Agreed. We should never start questioning a future page's political leanings. Anarchist, communist, whatever, that's entirely her business. However, during the employ of the government, she is expected to be non-partisan. Granted MPs don't set much of an example for her either to be fair, and in her defense, after a year, who knows, maybe she'd just taken after the MPs.
But I'll also grant her this, that she is young and so might very well change her ways. We did the right thing to fire her, but would also do the right thing to give her a second chance in her future life.
Now as for finding her in contempt of Parliament, I seem to remember a current majority government that was also found in Contempt. Seems to bring dividends, don't it.
I don't mind the act of protest itself. It's not much more than a political version of a streaker. You all should relax.
What you're really missing is what she's protesting. She calling for an Arab Spring in Canada. If she had done that in any Arab country last year she would have risked torture and execution.
What you're really missing is what she's protesting. She calling for an Arab Spring in Canada. If she had done that in any Arab country last year she would have risked torture and execution.
The actual words she used was Canadian version. Canada doesn't use oppressive force on citizens like Egypt, or Syria, or Lebanon has employed. But she obviously feels that democracy isn't being served here, and she's not alone. And we only seem to have a national discussion about changing our democracy for the better during election campaigns...
But there is an appropriate way of doing so. Start a letter-writing campaign or petition for example. If it's well written, deals with solution to a particular policy problem, I might actually sing it. If it's just to rant about a person, then no.
But the issue here is not whether she was right or wrong in her beliefs, but rather in how she expressed them.
Holding up a stop Harper sign is nothing compared to what some around the globe have done or are willing to do. She did what you are supposed to do in democracy. Get you point heard and noted. If that is what it takes then that is what it takes.
Have you ever gotten you point across in Parliament and been seen and heard from coast to coast to coast? Why not?
Have you ever gotten you point across in Parliament and been seen and heard from coast to coast to coast? Why not?