Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Have we reached our Tipping Point?

This is the best post I have read in a long time and, I think, sums up the feelings of many Canadians.

The following two paragraphs are the key point:

What exactly have we witnessed over the past two weeks? We have witnessed a parliamentary government of the British Crown and tradition, faced with a protracted and clear demonstration of a loss of majority confidence, refuse to adhere to the most fundamental tenets of responsible government by submitting itself to an immediate and declared confidence vote. We have watched that government instead suspend democracy until its bribes and enticements to the characterless could bear fruit. We have watched a blonde Judas cross the floor, oblivious of how ephemeral her new friendships will prove; casting the will of her constituents - and with it, the core mechanism by which the will of the people is translated into the reality of parliamentary power - into the dust; for obvious, crass and fleeting personal gain. And we have watched the chief architect of this farce declare, with a straight face, that he had secured the renewed confidence of the House and assured the future of a united Canada.

As this tragedy concluded, I listened to some around me, here in Ontario, actually declare their relief that they would not soon have to make another trip to the ballot box. And in that moment, I reached my tipping point. I realized that a people unprepared to devote a single hour – without sweat, cost or blood – to the enforcement of democracy, to the assurance that they might be governed by decent and responsible people of their actual choice; that a people too selfish and shameless to care whether their countrymen felt respected and represented under the common roof; that a people too brain-dead to understand how deeply their traditions of democracy have been compromised, and how dangerous a precedent has just been set - were not worthy of my allegiance.



Go read the whole thing at The Monarchist

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Amen;

I am glad to see that some people in Ontario fully comprehend the enormity of the undemocracy that we have right now. This isn't about East or West, this is about corrupted systems hiding themselves from justice. The only reason why this is allowed to continue is that it supposedly benefits Ontario. But the reality is this:

Liberals are so busy defending themselves that the Forestry industry, Cattle industry, Steel industry are all suffering and the workers laid off from these jobs are without a strategy to help them out. Those industries are all salvageable if someone will do something fast before they are sold to the Chinese.

But Dithers fiddles while Rome burns.