Filibuster Cartoons
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Prime Minister Harper suspended parliament last week, largely because he doesn’t want to get non-confidence voted out of power. He’s bringing it back next month for his annual speech from the throne, where he will outline his new legislative agenda for the coming session. Optically, it will look better for him to get confidence voted then, for he’ll just have finished outlining a bevy of new promises for voters, which he can then accuse the opposition of stupidly crushing.
But speaking of stupidly crushing things, Harper’s decision to suspend parliament resulted in a high number of bills getting killed. High-profile, important bills that had been among his government’s proudest achievements. Like the bill to raise the age of consent to 16, the bill to institute eight-year terms for senators, and the bill to implement tougher penalties for criminals convicted of violent gun crimes.
Harper plans to run for re-election on his record, but now on some key issues he has far less record to run on.
