Michael Ignatieff teased and enticed the entire nation’s media since yesterday, promising that today he would pronounce his erudite judgment on the Harper Conservative budget. And of course with rapt attention, the liberals’ media is out of group hug mode just long enough to cover his “judgment” from on high (and as he is a Liberal, when I say “on high”, one can never be sure exactly what I mean).
But he presented NOTHING. He has NO plan. He has no facts or figures. He presented nothing Canadians can hang their hat on. Nothing.
Instead, he made up something called “probation” He repeatedly said he has decided to put the Canadian government “on probation”.
Where in our Constitution does it allow for pompous, arrogant political party leaders to presume to convict duly elected Prime Ministers and entire governments like common criminals, and then put them “on probation”?
Ignatieff kept saying he won’t allow this Harper Conservative “it’s my way or the highway” attitude, but expects the Harper Conservatives and the entire government to abide by his “it’s my way or the highway” attitude and dictate. If the Prime Minister “behaves”—his word—then he’ll allow them to remain in office. Otherwise, he’ll bring them down. It’s “the highway”. His highway. On our behalf.
What Ignatieff did have—in the absence of ANYTHING—was a specious demand (designed to make him look “tough”—tougher than Lady Dion anyway) that the government report to him “and Canadians” three times per year—like a childish homework project—supposedly proving that the Prime Minister and the government are “behaving” up to Ignatieff’s expectation. Or, one presumes, it’s “the highway”. “Accountability” is how he put it. And he even gave the government three exact due dates for their little homework project. Iggy thinks he’s still a teacher and we’re all the very naughty students. Personally, I’d suggest Harper fail to turn in his homework, then tell the professor “the dog ate it”, pointing at one of his MPs as he says so, just for fun and to rouse more faux hysterics from Liberals and their media.
Apparently elections are not enough—particularly when they don’t go his way. And Canadians can’t be trusted to judge for themselves. The media can’t be trusted to hold Conservatives and our national government accountable either, apparently, shockingly, since they’re all anti-Conservative and love the opposition, whoever it may be. So now Canadians and their government must report directly to Him, Michael Ignatieff.
Who made Michael Ignatieff the Conservative government’s daddy? Who made him my daddy?
UPDATE:
The desperate far-leftist fringe leader, Jack Layton of the you’ve got to be kidding party, weighed in with this line, as if to prove he also drank the “Harper/criminal on probation” Kool Aid, by saying Ignatieff apparently decided for whatever reason, “to give [Harper] a get out of jail free card.”
UPDATE 2:
For his part, the socialist Gilles Duceppe has now chimed in, claiming that the Liberals “are accomplices with the Conservatives”.
UPDATE 3:
The CBC Newsworld anchor Nancy (“very interesting!”) Wilson repeatedly recaps Ignatieff’s pronouncement from on high, by informing Canadians that he has put the Conservative government “on probation”. Not “so-called probation”, mind you, as she describes the war on terror while George Bush was President. It’s full-on “on probation” certainty.
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