Glen Pearson: "Wanna Go?"

Glen Pearson is ready to go:

The greatest danger of all plays out in the next 24 hours. Raising its fist to the Speaker by refusing his ruling that Parliament is the ultimate master in this country, the Harper government has said, “no, we won’t turn over the documents, even though you said it would put us in contempt of Parliament if we didn’t.” The sheer gall of that defiance!

This list goes on, leaving opposition parties looking amateurish in the face of a government that defies Parliament and its people. This Parliament is sick and there really is only one route to potential healing: an election. But naturally the Conservatives know that while Canadians bemoan our behaviour in Parliament, they don’t want to be bothered with going to the polls. Well, it’s perhaps time to get agitated. This is your Parliament and it’s busted. If the Harper government refuses any form of correction, even from the Speaker, then it stands to reason the institution can’t rise to your defence when you need it. After 10 months we never left the starting line. And we never will until either the government atones for its mistakes, or the good people of Canada say “enough.”