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Johnny Boy Charest, Are You Insane??

By ck, on June 14th, 2011

I’m really convinced our premier has lost it. I’m seriously wondering if he’s on drugs.  Sometimes I wonder if we have a need to do things so differently just for the hell of it. It really looks like Johnny Boy is prepared to take the feds to court over senate reform.  He doesn’t appear to want shorter terms for senators or elected senators. I would forgive this if Johnny Boy were in favour of abolishing the senate outright, as I am, but, that doesn’t appear to be the case. So, Johnny, you don’t want to abolish the senate, nor do you want the next best thing of elected senators with fixed terms. That leaves the current system of Stevie Spiteful continuing to stack it with his flunkies and those old media hacks who suck up to him shamelessly.  Under the current system, until 2015, Stevie will have about 25 such losers to stack the red chamber with. Tell me, Johnny-Boy, how exactly is this good for Quebec? How is this good for Canada? How is this good for our already shaky democracy?

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4 comments to Johnny Boy Charest, Are You Insane??

  • Kev
    June 15, 2011 at 6:04 AM

    It’s just more of the tried and true tactic of provincial politics When in trouble pick a fight with the feds.

    The Senate is beyond reform and must be abolished but in the interim these proposals improves things somewhat and lessens the power of the PM and that’s a good thing.

    ck Reply:
    June 15th, 2011 at 7:06 AM

    My first choice would be to abolish the senate as well. However, elected senators would be my second choice if we must keep it. I am just not getting my premier on this, who has said that he will take the feds to the supreme court on this. And he’s not for abolishing the senate neither. This leaves only one option, he actually is just honky dory with Harper stacking it with 25 more of his cronies the next 4 years? At least with senate elections, the red chamber might have a mix from the various provinces.

  • Michel
    June 15, 2011 at 9:48 AM

    I believe his position is – along with Nfld and New Brunswick – that any changes to the Senate requires Constitutional changes and provincial approval. A bill would be inadequate to remove the upper house. It would be similar if the lower house were to vote to remove the judicial branch of government. It’s not within their exclusive power to do so and neither is abolishing the Senate without provincial approval.

    That seems rather reasonable to me.

    ck Reply:
    June 15th, 2011 at 11:29 AM

    It’s not reasonable for Harper to continue stacking the senate with his friends to further abuse his powers. That is most insidious. Bottom line is they’re fighting to maintain that hideous status quo. It’s insane.

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