Why the bum’s rush?

Vincent J. Curtis

23 Nov 21

RE: MPs return as Liberals set deadline to pass new bills.  Canadian Press news article by Jordan Press and Joan Bryden.  Published in the Hamilton Spectator 23 Nov 21.

Two months after the last election the new, 44^th parliament is called into session, the first meeting of parliament in five months.  Immediately, the Liberal government informs the House that it has to act fast, passing four major pieces of legislation before Christmas.  Never mind a speech from the Throne and a budget.  You have to wonder, why the bum’s rush all of a sudden?  It’s not like Prime Minister Trudeau didn’t have time to think and plan.  Or, maybe it’s because he did.

The contempt of the Trudeau Liberals for parliament is not new, but since of death of Senator Eugene Forsey there is no go-to constitutional expert who can tell the people the dangers to their rights of the Liberal’s contemptuous actions.  Every little bit of arcania that obstructs the actions of government is there to protect the rights of the people, and especially of minorities.

People shouldn’t laugh at Trudeau’s cavalier attitude towards the procedures of representative democracy that protects the rights of minorities.  These procedures should be treated with reverence.  Perhaps Justin Trudeau is too unserious, immature, and shallow, for really vicious purposes, to undermine the protections that due regard for parliament provides to everyone, but he may be laying down markers that a serious anti-democrat can exploit.

There was no excuse for not calling parliament back within two weeks of the election so that the House could appoint a Speaker and select and empower a Board of Internal Economy that could legitimately operate parliament, and then adjourn.  Instead, parliament was not summoned, and an illegitimate Speaker and an illegitimate BOIE moved to block Conservative MPs from sitting in the new parliament that would select the new Speaker and empower the new BOIE, making them both legitimate.

On the grounds that you can’t do something stupid fast enough, the Liberals are rushing through partisan legislation without a budget or any of the other niceties a government is expected to deliver.

Meanwhile, a supine media watch in wonderment as the Liberals pull rhetorical rabbits out of their hats.  They talk about vaccination status instead of the business before the House, which, besides delay, is another distraction the from the government’s agenda.  Why the distractions?

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[UPDATE] A speech from the Throne was delivered after the filing of this story.  The fact that Prime Minister Trudeau effectively announced to the House some of the contents of that speech stole the thunder as it were from the speech delivered the Queen’s representative, a different kind of insult since the Governor General is made to look like a puppet.  The speech was a ridiculous spectacle of mask-compliance.  Everybody in the chamber had to be either fully vaccinated or have had a certificate of exemption, yet everyone wore cloth masks anyway.  And cloth masks are known to be completely ineffective in preventing the release or the intact of the virus.  The speech was a much-criticized stew of Trudeaupian pieties combine with liberal doses of insult all-round.