Does Canada Suck? Do You Suck?

I fully endorse this F&W post and TofKW's comment "But if no one is defending parliamentary supremacy all from a fear that Harper would go running from a contempt charge, and into the home of the Governor General to dissolve parliament …then democracy in Canada has officially become a farce." Lee, Iggy & LPC promised they would fight for parliamentary democracy, and bring in contempt motion if Govt doesn't meet House demands, which it hasn't  - will they? NDP long promised it would bring in contempt motion this Friday, or this Monday at latest, under another parsing of their words - will they? Will partisans of all stripes, being democrats first, pressure their parties? Will they talk to them in the only language backroom boys understand and promise consequences if they don't? I have. There is nothing I and others won't do to defend democracy - and you? What will you do? Or do you suck? Do we all suck? Does Canada suck?


In QC, Lagacé, my favourite columnist, is going off on silly anglo media types, which is well and good, but so far nothing about his prestigious colleague David's anti-semitism. Not from him, not from anyone in QC media. And if Lagacé is going to fight decontextualisation and BS, then maybe he should start with his own paper and R. Tremblay's and Petrowski's anglophobia, and Foglia's defence of child rapists (though Boisvert has, re. Lussier and Cassivi), and JdM, and at Devoir, Boileau's spittle-filled hysterical incoherent xenophobia disguised as laïcisme in defence of feminism, and on and on. But no, we'll all keep quiet and pretend nothing stinks in the state of Denmark QC. We're all good chaps. Let's go after the anglos instead. Yeah, except that's the easy part. The funniest thing to me after B-T Commission was B's comment about astonishment at bad faith and viciousness of people of his political sympathies. Ya don't say. He's probably forgotten, but I argued about this stuff with him years ago, and predicted pretty much everything, and explained to him then how it would go. He still thought fellow nationalists-separatists, esp. elites, reasonable folk. But that was before Michaud, and bro's resignation, and all the rest. Only now does he understand his society. Pity. But that's one. How many more? How long do we have to wait? Or we just going to curl into a ball and wimper "qu'on est bien, qu'on est bien" over and over, and savage "les ethniques, les anglos, etc." forever?


If the NDP discard contempt motion, they will have proved me right re. ToT Zombie status. If the Iggy-LPC backs down from defending THEIR OWN MOTION which created Order of Parliament it will prove me right re. previous criticism of Iggy. 


And I read a Topp post today so riddled with errors, decontextualisation, misinformation and false premises that I honestly hope it was written in bad faith because if not, and was meant honestly, I worry for the man. There are simply too many to correct. The basic premise was correct, but everything else was abysmal, but absymal. People do remember you know, buddy? Or is he completely lost up his own arsehole?


I mention it only as an example, I could pick any number of similar tripe out there. Because if the Opposition backs down on Parliamentary Supremacy & Democracy, and the above examples are the level of our discourse, then I fear the answer to Chantal Hébert's question, in the most important and best post or column anywhere, for many a year, is OUI: "Dans un système où la vérité n’a plus sa place, y-a-t-il encore un rôle utile pour de l’analyse politique basée sur des faits ? Ou bien cette analyse finit-elle par ne servir qu’à rendre plus rationnel ce qui devrait être inacceptable ? Et la piètre qualité de l’eau du bocal parlementaire, chaque année un peu plus moche depuis que je couvre la politique, a-t-elle atteint un point de non-retour?" 


If this is indeed the case, then we will burn the whole thing down, every party, every media, everything, from the inside out. There is nothing else for it. Prove me wrong, Opposition, please god, prove me wrong. Or we'll burn you all before slamming the door on what is clearly a joke democracy in a joke country with a joke media. Just one big bad joke, all in all. And that's not how I think of Canada.