[Clive]

So much for allowing a free vote.

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.

[KateatRFM]

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.

[headsonpikes]

Canada richly deserves this travesty of a government.

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 49^th parallel.

Just my opinion. ;^)