I was predicting that the whips would be out, but covertly.
Our noble prime minister sucks and blows in the same breath.
Martin ensures that a backbench revolt won't bring down the government by declaring that the legislation is not a vote of confidence,
Then he orders the Cabinet to vote for the legislation.
Then he huffs and puffs and strikes poses and declaims to a scrum that he is prepared to fight an election on the issue.
Then he backs down on and reconfirms that it is indeed still not a vote of confidence.
Then he sets the loyalists onto the back bench to persuade members to go awol on voting day.
We are a Banana Republic and it's time people started fighting back against things they don't like, even if it will make the Americans happy. I will happily lead them to the barricades, although I can only drag one at a time and it may be hard to make them stay there.
If we could get half the enthusiasm for this fight that we got to pressure the CBC to re-hire Don Cherry for "Coach's Corner", we could have a democracy here by next week.
Until Canuckleheads stop caring what their civil servant neighbours think, there will be no improvement.
So long as Canuckleheads believe that their precious 'Canadian Values' are anything but a tedious crock of socialist sh*t, there will be no daylight north of the 49th parallel.
Just my opinion. ;^)