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Much feigned fury. here is no political crisis in Canada

What Crisis?


By News on the Net ——--December 5, 2008

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There's so much feigned fury being displayed by all our political leaders, and so much hand-wringing by so many "ordinary" citizens over the shenanigans in Ottawa that foreigners must think that Canada has suddenly turned into one of those hapless failed states where the military is about to oust the whole sorry crew that imagine themselves as leaders of this great Dominion.

There is no political crisis in Canada, so any foreign media expecting a coup will have a long wait. The fact is the Governor General has three clear choices: Prorogue Parliament, sanction another federal election or ask the coalition to form a new government, and no matter which choice she makes, she will anger a lot of Canadians. As for the Separatists being a faction in the proposed coalition, they would merely keep on being their usual irritating selves. So we should all relax, enjoy the Christmas and New Year festivities, and rest assured that when the tumult and the shouting dies we will still have a government and an opposition, suffering from delusions of adequacy, shouting at the top of their lungs that they, and they alone, can save a nation that doesn't need saving in the first place. William Bedford

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