The Montreal Gazette’s L. Ian MacDonald has it figured out, regarding the Liberals’ undemocratic appointment of two “Progressive” Conservative members to the vacant seats in the Canadian Senate division of the Liberal Party despite there being no such thing as a “Progressive Conservative Party” in Canada anymore (read my blog entry here). (Hat tip: Norman Spector):
“While the PC party no longer exists, three former Tory senators – Lowell Murray, Norman Atkins and Bill Doody – refused to join the new Conservative caucus. They sit as members of the self-proclaimed Progressive Conservative caucus.
As a threesome, they have been two members short of the five seats required for official party status. Until now. With party standing comes things like additional staff, and time in the Senate question period, to the detriment of the official opposition.
No wonder the Conservatives are furious, quite apart from Stephen Harper’s advocacy of naming senators chosen by the voters of Alberta in the last provincial election. Not one of the three “elected” senators from Alberta made the cut. There was a precedent, when Brian Mulroney named Stan Waters as Alberta’s “elected” senator in 1990, but warned he wouldn’t make a habit of it. It was a one-shot symbolic deal that Martin might have done well to follow.
But the appointment of the two PC senators is a particular slap in the face of the Conservatives, in that it props up the old red Tory wing of the PCs and undermines the merger on the right.
Whose idea was this? Joe Clark’s fingerprints are all over it. How else could Maureen McTeer’s name have been in the mix for a Senate appointment? The idea was that she would sit as a Progressive Conservative.
In the end, Martin declined to appoint her but held on to the idea.
It’s not clear whether McCoy and Ruth were asked if they would sit as PCs as a condition of their appointment, or whether they declared their affiliation to the Prime Minister’s Office.
Either way, it is no coincidence. It’s pretty cheesy.”
Nope! No hidden agenda here! And like the gay ‘marriage’ file, we see once again how when liberals can’t find something in science or law or nature or religion, or in their sacred Charter of Rights, they arrange to simply invent it or make it up. Create it. Cause it to “flow from” something or other. In this case, there was no division in the Conservative Party, so: use our nation’s political institutions to create it. Who cares? Nothing is more important to these people than their own power and control over Canada, which they obviously think they own (and actually, maybe they do, but in a crime-family kind of way). There was no “Progressive Conservative Party” anymore after the Conservatives healed the rifts and became united—so create it. Cause that rift. Fund it with our tax dollars.
And so they did create it. And it was good. And the voters lapped it up like poodles. And then they ate donuts. And it was good. For the liberals.
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