Proroguing the Perogies
So Parliament has been prorogued until January 26 (which happens to be the day before a certain blogger’s birthday). I don’t know about anyone else, but this who proproguing business sounds a lot like perogies. Wouldn’t it be something if it turned out this was all a ruse? Think about it, none of the party leaders know what the hell they’re doing on a good day. And in the midst of a global recession and the daily reports of the market’s (and our loonie) plunging, they’re all probably shaking in their boots. (Especially that Dion fellow.)
I bet all four leaders are sitting in Stevie’s living room right now enjoying some perogies with a glass of wine and breathing a sigh of relief. “Thank God we’ve bought ourselves some time!” Layton’s probably saying.
“This break will give me enough time to get my Christmas Shopping done,” Dion’s chirping in. “I wasn’t sure I’d be able to do it what with being Prime Minister and all.”
“You bastards said we could separate!” the other guy is screaming.
“If our plan works out, the markets will have evened themselves out by January 26 and we’ll have the dodged the bullet. Cheers gentlemen!”
They all clink their glasses…
In reading the news, I came across a few articles that I felt really hit the political nail on the head. This one, from an interesting place, makes a very good argument. I remember when Bob Rae was premier of Ontario and hearing my dad bitch about how shitty things were because unemployment was so high. Leave it to that idiot to take a prosperous province into deficit while trying to spend his way out of a recession. Here’s hoping he doesn’t win the leadership race in May.
While talking to Natalie the other day, we laughed over the fact that the rest of the world probably didn’t know where Canada was, let alone pay attention to our crisis. Seems like she and I weren’t the only ones to feel that way. U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins doesn’t know if he’ll mention the state of things here on his final visit with George Bush. Then again, Dubya’s probably one of those people who doesn’t know where Canada is, eh?
As it turns out though, we actually did manage to make a blip in international news today. I feel like the fan in the stands who’s picture made it into the day’s paper when a photo was taken of someone catching a foul ball. Only no one can find me in the picture because I’m the size of an ant.
Now if you’ll excuse me, my perogies are ready.
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O Canada!
I was surprised that Jean didn’t dissolve Parliament and call for new elections. Clearly the coalition will take power on January 26, so this only delays the inevitable. The prorogue seemed to have been the worst possible decision, in my non-GG opinion. But god she is a sexy deal. sigh. Christine Lagarde is so yesterday’s crush.
I continue to be surprised at how little notice this gets here in the States, especially since Canada is our largest export partner, and you sell us gobs of oil and supply a significant part of our grid at very reasonable prices. Perhaps it’s because we have a raptor on our money and you have a loon. I am not surprised that Bush doesn’t know anything about this, he doesn’t know too much about anything, even stuff he allegedly reads: “Bin Laden Determined To Attack Inside the US” before 9/11.
I do believe your finance minister is wrong if he believes this recession will be shallow (I read a news article to this effect). A recent chart of S&P Index valuation (since the 1830s when S&P started the Index) shows that 2008 and 1931 are the worst two years in the history of the Index losing more than 50% valuation in one year. The Index is a better indicator of economic conditions than the Dow because it is less subject to manipulation and speculation.
In any event, thanks for the news from Up North. Might I suggest that someone substitute Celine Dion for Stephane Dione, you’d probably all be better off, and the music would be more palatable. Or better yet, can’t the Liberals find their own Obama? You can’t have ours, we need him here.
Regards.