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Dec 16,2007-Dec 23,2007 |
Mr. Harper, can you send everybody home?
Dysfunctional session of Parliament should come to an end
By Angelo Persichilli
Please Mr. Harper, can you put an end to this session of our dysfunctional Parliament? I don’t know about you, but I’ve had enough of the mudslinging in a building that’s supposed to be a house of democracy, and where MPs are supposed to show some dignity and decorum.
I don’t want to spend a lot of time talking about NDP MP Irene Mathyssen because I feel embarrassed. She’s wrong even if she’s right. Even if her colleague Conservative MP James Moore was really looking at pictures of a “scantily-clad” woman, a sincerely concerned and responsible person would have privately approached him and taught him a lesson on morality and respect for women and Parliament. If anything, she would have had the opportunity to verify the facts and avoid an embarrassment for her and her party.
Exposing the matter in the House was nothing but an attempt to gain political points. And, worse than Mathyssen, look at Liberal MP Karen Redman who jumped into action trying to shamefully score a few shots without even knowing what happened.
Unfortunately, this was not the only event on the Hill that embarrassed Canadians last week.
We had to go through two testimonies of Karlheinz Schreiber in the Commons Ethics Committee that, more than anything, showed how deranged things are in the House. This situation is a mockery of a system that, until now, has guaranteed centuries of democracy and, most importantly, dignity for this country.
MPs have forgotten they are in the Canadian House of Commons. They think they’re in a “Schreiber Variety Store” where they buy mud and whatever tool they can find to help throw that mud at their opponents. The only thing they are not looking for in that store is the truth.
But the Schreiber-Mulroney affair is also instrumental in exposing other deficiencies in our institutions. For example, we have learned that there are RCMP officers who don’t know that if you remove a belt from the pants of a handcuffed man, his pants will fall down. I hope they’re not the same agents looking after our national security.
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