Which is about the amount of substance I expect from fools like you and Unforgiven....no challenge, no facts, not even a real political or philisophical opinion....just BS........
You simply don't have the parts required.
Parliamentary page sacrifices her job for anti-Harper protest
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Which is about the amount of substance I expect from fools like you and Unforgiven....no challenge, no facts, not even a real political or philisophical opinion....just BS........
You simply don't have the parts required.
She's just totally the wrong person to be beaking off. Can you imagine the grass cutter at the White House yapping off at the State of the Union address? That broad just makes us look like total Hill Billies. (I love Hill Billies, but in the hills)
Nothing but insults. That's about the norm for you. Face it Colpy, she's got more balls that any gun is going to ever give you.
That is very true, but a letter to the editor would be more effective and his right wouldn't be in question. :smile:
No, not appropriate in Parliament during a Throne Speech.
If you think you need to take political instruction from a film maker, go ahead.
Did you say something?
Michael Moore? The guy who stages get a free gun at a bank in Texas and passes it off as reality. Boy, he's the last guy I'd be taking my cues from. He's not even a documentary film-maker, I put his work up there with Operation-Repo and Pawn Kings.
This one is starting to spread like wildfire..
Senate page fired for anti-Harper protest
A 21-year-old page lost her job Friday after walking onto the Senate floor during the speech from the throne to protest against Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Brigette DePape, a recent University of Ottawa graduate, carried a sign reading "Stop Harper" and walked out in front of Gov. Gen. David Johnston as he read the afternoon speech. Senate pages are hired for one to two years to work in the upper chamber, providing basic support to the senators during sittings and in committee meetings, which generally means fetching water, photocopying documents and passing messages. They tend to be politically engaged, but this type of protest is unprecedented.
DePape went as far as to prepare a news release, which a friend distributed after she was removed from the Senate chamber by security. The release identified her as Brigette Marcelle, but the Senate website and her email address identify her as Brigette DePape. "Harper's agenda is disastrous for this country and for my generation," DePape said in the release. "We have to stop him from wasting billions on fighter jets, military bases, and corporate tax cuts while cutting social programs and destroying the climate. Most people in this country know what we need are green jobs, better medicare, and a healthy environment for future generations."
Wishes for Canadian 'spring'
The release said she was a page for a year but realized that working in that job "wouldn't stop Harper's agenda."
"This country needs a Canadian version of an Arab Spring, a flowering of popular movements that demonstrate that real power to change things lies not with Harper but in the hands of the people, when we act together in our streets, neighbourhoods and workplaces."
A release from Senate Speaker Noël Kinsella said the page's actions constituted a contempt of Parliament.
"All employees of the Senate are expected to serve the institution in a non-partisan manner, with competence, excellence, efficiency and objectivity," Kinsella said. "The incident raises serious security concerns which the Senate will fully investigate."
Kinsella's statement included an apology to Johnston.
A spokeswoman for the Senate said DePape has been removed from her position. DePape's contract would have ended in three weeks when the Senate rises for the summer. Pages must be university students to hold the job.
The Senate's page program website says DePape is from Winnipeg and studying international development and globalization. She interned last summer at the Manitoba office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and wrote about travelling in a van with other activists to the G20 protests in Toronto last June.
Mike Duffy, a Conservative senator, said "stunts" such as the one DePape pulled Friday hurt democracy, rather than further it. "These things are unfortunate because every time there's some kind of event like this it means security gets tightened," Duffy said. "And we want this to be the people's place, where people can come and talk to politicians and make their point, and so now who knows what the end result will be, but it will not be more relaxed security. It will mean tighter security.
Taken by surprise
Liberal Sen. Jim Munson says everyone in the chamber seemed startled by the small protest.
"The GG [Governor General) didn't flinch, and as senators we just kept looking at each saying, 'Did this really happen?'" Munson said. "It's probably one of the more exciting things I've seen in the Senate in a long time."
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May said the protest was inappropriate and in the wrong place. "I sympathize enormously with youth in this country who feel they've been abandoned when the single greatest threat to their future isn't mentioned in the speech from the throne, and that, of course, is the climate crisis."
DePape said Senate security decided not to press charges.
Senate page fired for anti-Harper protest - Politics - CBC News
...Just a Few more yrs ..Brigette...
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Glad someone took a picture..or there's a good chance.. Nobody ever woulda known.................
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I say !..Censor ..Censorship!...
F**K m'.
But please ,
let's be civil bout it..
Some Civility PLEASE!
I am really sorry ( Again ) !
Peace!..
An insult to Operation repro and pawn Kings.....
neither of which I've ever watched, but it mustr be.
Ah, you guys are just pissed cause she Pawned your man. People are always saying parliament needs to be reformed. Well, she took a step toward that. She broke the rules that need breaking. Phuk decorum. I say she is a hero and deserves respect. Revolutionaries rarely get recognized until the revolution is over.
UP the System!
UP the System!
how about longer than the swearing in?
And then after that protesting the government becomes democratic?
I would say so. however, there are still aspects of this that are just plain ethical vs unethical
Yeah right.....if that is your revolutionary, you couldn't take over a Victoria's Secret outlet.
No brains. No ethics. Just lots and lots of ego.
BTW, if the only reason we're pissed.........and it is not so much at her as at the idiots that support her childish behaviour (they should know better, she is 21) anyway, if we're just pissed because she insulted Harper and no other reason.....why have Bob Rae, Jack Layton, and even the flake Elizabeth May have condemned the act as contempt of the democratic process?
My absolute last word on the subject.
I'm kinda surprised the Edmonton journal is piping up and addressing the real issues at hand..
Senate page's protest courageous
During the reading of the throne speech, she quietly stood in the midst of the Senate floor holding a mock red road sign that read: "Stop Harper!" While her choice of place and means to display her discontent with the current government may be debatable, she is undoubtedly expressing the frustration of 60 per cent of Canadians who did not vote for Conservative candidates, who see their public policy priorities and choices increasingly displaced from the government agenda.
During the reading of the throne speech, she quietly stood in the midst of the Senate floor holding a mock red road sign that read: "Stop Harper!" While her choice of place and means to display her discontent with the current government may be debatable, she is undoubtedly expressing the frustration of 60 per cent of Canadians who did not vote for Conservative candidates, who see their public policy priorities and choices increasingly displaced from the government agenda.
On a previously prepared news release, DePape wrote: "Harper's agenda is disastrous for this country and for my generation. "We have to stop him from wasting billions on fighter jets, military bases and corporate tax cuts while cutting social programs and destroying the climate.
This reform raises the prospect of a political process where private money determines who is able to run a campaign and be elected, as is the case in the United States.
The ultimate irony is that DePape's action was condemned by government officials as a display of contempt of Parliament.
So the same party found in contempt of Parliament last March is now concerned about appropriate parliamentary procedure. The difference, of course, is that for the current government, parliamentary decorum is more important than parliamentary democracy. The form matters more than the substance.
Senate page's protest courageous
We should really tackle these instead of just quibbling about her actions..
1.) Parliamentary decorum is more important than democracy in the current government
2.) Private money can determine election outcomes like the U.S. (where they are trying to get away from private campaign funding now)
3.) 60% of Canadians didn't vote for the current majority (which shows why FPTP is stupid)
Really? You're surprised?
There is a reason that it is called Redmonton, ya know.
Still sore about having your ass handed to you in the last election?... It wasn't democratic?
I can't believe that you're still whining about this
No, this has nothing to do with the party that actually won. I would agree with reform if the Bloc, Libs or NDP were in the same position.
But thanks for regurgitating the sour grapes argument.
It was an easy set up.
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Nope
Sour grapes is all it is... One of your hobby-horses (Kyoto) never even had a vote in Parliament let alone an opportunity for a regular schmo to have their individual representation, yet I never heard one peep from you about the fascist and dictatorial regime and NWO that jammed it through.
Funny the way that works for ya, ain't it?