Prorougation Again!

Well here we are at the end of yet another year and our beloved Conservative government has gone to the Governor General (Michaelle Jean) to ask her again to prorogue parliament. The last time Steven Harper did this was to avoid a confidence vote which would have ushered in a coalition government between the Liberals and the N.D.P. This coalition did with have the approval of the block Quebecois and the promise of letting them govern for eighteen months before they would consider voting against the coalition. During the time off while parliament was prorogued the Conservatives launched a massive ad campaign to denounce this coup d'etat as a over throw of our government. The reality however, was that this was totally legal and in fact Steven Harper was engineering a coalition of his own back when Paul Martin and the Liberals were in power. Unfortunately the media and pretty much all the journalist neglected to discuss that very much all they seem to do is side with Steven Harper and repeat or trumpet his message that those dam Liberals were trying to steal power away from him. Steven Harper seemed to think that because he won the election with 37% of the vote, that Canadians wanted him to be the leader. This advertising campaign went on for weeks and every poll and every news cast seem to re-affirm this belief, every talking head or political analysis repeated what Harper was saying. By the time parliament did re-convene, Canadians were led to believe that this was bad for the country(roughly 60%against to 40%for) and the Liberals under (Micheal Ignatieff) scrapped the whole coalition idea. Also Ignatieff scraped it because now that parliament was prorogued the only way to go forward would be a non confidence vote in the spring budget, which would lead to yet another election. In my opinion the Liberals had neither the money nor the confidence that Canadians knew enough about their new leader Michael Ignatieff, so rather than going into an election the Liberals insisted that the Conservatives include in that budget spending provisions (The Canada Action Plan) that would help Canada get out of this world financial crisis and set up a series of reporting periods that must be met to show how the infrastructure spending is doing. Ya what the media and journalist seem to report little about is that this whole coalition was caused by Harper releasing a budget that included no plans to combat the global financial crisis, instead he attacked a couple of social programs and revoked the public funding for political parties. What the media focused on was the party funding and little was said about the fifty billion plus dollars needed to help our economy get back on its feet.
So now another Prorogation of parliament and already the media is parroting the P.M.O.'s message that this is a just a routine occurrence in parliamentary process, however that is a lie. Prorogation is used to end the session after everything needed to be done is done or closed to being done, and on special occasions where the Prime Minister believes that it is a necessity. Prorogation is not to avoid confidence votes, like the last time, or to avoid court orders from committees, like the one from the Afghanistan committee that requires the government to release the documents from the detainee issue dating back to 2006 until now (not backed out). This government is so slippery, I believe they will probably get away with this and our media will play an important role in its execution. No wonder Canadians are more and more less interested in Canadian politics, the crap that goes on is depressing. However, now more than ever Canadians need to stop listening to the bias media and investigate more for themselves, get to the bottom of every truth, do not let journalist get away with regurgitating the politicains pollished talking points or their carefully constructed message. I read a good blog on this today by Red Torry ( I tried to get the whole link thing happening but, not), anyways the post is a clip of a journalist holdiong the Rebublicans to account for the lies they have been spewing for the last week regarding President Obama, its a very good post.