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Uploaded by on Dec 5, 2008

Rachel Maddow explains why PM Stephen Harper of Canada wants to suspend parliament.

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  • This video is 1 year old,, but the SAME Prime Minister Has just done this AGAIN! He had cancelled (suspended) Parliament until MARCH! No government, no bills brought forward or passed, no elected rpresentatives of Canadians meeting, No gov't committees! UNBELIEVABLE!!!

  • Let me get this straight: The GG is an overlord but its the PM that uses the useless Queen's powers. Huh? The Queen and her rep are checks against unconstitutional acts by the PM. If you think Harper's a sneaky little bastard now, imagine what he'd be like if there were no head of state.

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  • From what I've been told, he told the then Governor General that if she didn't suspend parliament, he was going to go directly to the Queen. That has never happened in Canadian history.

  • Next election let's kick Harper's ass

  • @Craigmw45. What you have said is untrue, any leader of a coalition government would be an elected member of parliament, so no they were not unelected. Canada Has a rich history of coalition governments. In our system we don't elect our PM we elect MPs and the party or group of parties working together forms the government and then that party or group of parties chooses the PM. this was not an attempted coup or even underhanded, its just how our system works, who ever has the most support is PM.

  • ... hmm and our warmer, non-metric neighbour is feeling smug because they survived 8 years under a President who was never elected once? Or because their response to political bickering, of the most immature kind is to pout, stamp their feet and let their country come within a cunt hair of defaulting on it's debt? I give the good old USA another ten years before it self-destructs or becomes the Second-Coming of Nazi Germany. Yay democracy,... pffft!

  • You could also say this was an done as response to an attempt to remove an elected leader from power, and replace him with an unelected coalition backed by a party dedicated to breaking up the country.

    This isn't the black and white issue the video made it out to be.

  • harper is a joke 

  • lol msnbc is the biggest joke of anews station, the onion tells more truth than them.

  • @zizimycat i pray to God that you're right!!!!!!

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