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John Doe · 01-09-2010, 10:49 AM

I am a bit late to the conversation, but I have a few points that I would like to add. First, I know it is one of the Conservative talking points that the Senate is obstructionist, is this true? Kady O'Malley had an interesting blog on this matter that shows that at least in the last session it wasn't the case.
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/insidepol...pers-past.html

Besides, even if we do operate on the assumption that the Senate was keeping bills from being passed, Harper could prorogue parliament for one day, appoint new senators and re-appoint the committees and bring parliament back the next day. No need to suspend parliament for the rest of the time.

The new reason coming from the Conservatives is that they need time to "re-calibrate". I don't believe this for a second, as last year at approximately this time they were able to go from not believing that we were in a recession to coming up with a new budget with all sorts of stimulus spending. The time they took to accomplish that was approximately the same time that parliament would have been off this year if they came back on January 25th. How can they do a complete 90 degrees last year in one month but need 3 months this year to "re-calibrate". Regardless, I trust that we won't be seeing Conservative ministers hanging around Vancouver during the Olympics as they will be so busy "re-calibrating".

01-09-2010, 10:49 AM	#57
John Doe Scoring Winger Join Date: Feb 2009 Exp:	I am a bit late to the conversation, but I have a few points that I would like to add. First, I know it is one of the Conservative talking points that the Senate is obstructionist, is this true? Kady O'Malley had an interesting blog on this matter that shows that at least in the last session it wasn't the case. http://www.cbc.ca/politics/insidepol...pers-past.html Besides, even if we do operate on the assumption that the Senate was keeping bills from being passed, Harper could prorogue parliament for one day, appoint new senators and re-appoint the committees and bring parliament back the next day. No need to suspend parliament for the rest of the time. The new reason coming from the Conservatives is that they need time to "re-calibrate". I don't believe this for a second, as last year at approximately this time they were able to go from not believing that we were in a recession to coming up with a new budget with all sorts of stimulus spending. The time they took to accomplish that was approximately the same time that parliament would have been off this year if they came back on January 25th. How can they do a complete 90 degrees last year in one month but need 3 months this year to "re-calibrate". Regardless, I trust that we won't be seeing Conservative ministers hanging around Vancouver during the Olympics as they will be so busy "re-calibrating".