The legitimacy of the contempt motion is laughable. The majority of the parliamentary committee that found the government in contempt was composed of OPPOSITION members. Its the same thing as asking a jury of mostly black people to determine the guilt of a white guy. There was inherent bias in the motions.
Its also laughable that opposition members are actings as if the Harper government was some kind of dictatorship and a villian of democracy. If anything previous governments have done worse. Heck the sponsorship scandal is still fresh in mind.
If anything, I think the opposition has set a bad precedent of using the motion of contempt on relatively miniscule issues and thus watering down its actual function in the future. There's a reason why the commonwealth hadn't used it before, and thats because there hasn't really been scandals of the magnitude that actually warrant its use. All the opposition has done was to turn the motion into a political tool to be used whenever an opportune moment for gain arises.
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