Thoughts on Prorogation

From an email to a friend...

I'm pretty mixed on the situation. I think Harper clearly screwed up,
and lost the confidence of the House, but just hid from the vote by
delaying (which is legit but annoying) and then by proroguing (which I
think is pretty dangerous, it could have set a bad precedent).

Michaëlle Jean needed 2 hours of convincing to give him that though (I
think - can't wait for a tell-all book!) so hopefully she was very
resistant and set some rules or something so GGs in the future still
have flexibility and PMs can't just run and hide. She probably made
the right choice out of some shitty options.

The coalition is dead, I think. There are too many different competing
interests at play, and already you can see the Liberals fracturing all
over the place. As much as it's possible that A coalition could be a
good government, I think THIS coalition (because of the crappy state
of the Libs) would not have been very successful. I'd love to be
proven wrong on this, because I prefer their policies in general. But
the Liberals can't communicate these days (not just Dion), have no
leader with a mandate for these sorts of big decisions, and are
infighting already/again. *sigh*

If Harper spend the prorogation attacking and being all majority-ish
(60% odds IMHO), and the coalition stays together (30% odds), January
26th will be interesting! But all in all, I think we got the best
result of the worst possible options. If everything had actually
happened as fast as it tried to, I'm sure there'd be regrets in the
morning.

Grey's Anatomy and National Borders

TV character: "Please convince my dad to have brain surgery! I want him to walk me down the aisle next month."


Americans watching show: "Awww... I hope they save the patient!"

Canadians watching show: "a MONTH for BRAIN SURGERY?! Friggin' American health care!"