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Use of prorogation an abuse of process |
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Written by Larry MacKillop
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Saturday, January 30 2010, 9:01 PM |
According to one constitutional expert, a government generally respects Parliament’s right to conduct its business without the threat of being shut down and must have the continuing support of a majority of elected MPs.
For a prime minister to seek prorogation (or dissolution) in order to forestall a vote of non-confidence is a flagrant abuse of process which attacks the very foundation of representative parliamentary democracy.
Stephen Harper, a minority leader, seems guilty of breaching all of above.
Let us hope we Canadians are not so dazzled by the Olympic Games that we ignore the destruction of another Greek tradition, democracy.
Larry MacKillop
Nanton
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