WHAT WILL THE SPEECH FROM THE THRONE MEAN FOR CANADA?
On Oct. 16th the fall session of Parliament will begin with the reading of the Speech from the Throne by the Governor General, Michaelle Jean. This speech is created by the Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party that will outline what it intends to do in the upcoming session. This includes budgets and acts that it will try to pass in Parliament.
Liberal leader Stephane Dion and Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe have both announced a list of requirements that the Throne Speech must include if the Conservatives want their support. NDP leader Jack Layton says he will wait to see the Speech before he makes the decision on whether or not he will support it. The Conservatives just need one of the three parties to support the speech in order for it to pass. However, PM Stephen Harper has said that if a party supports the speech then it better be ready to support all of the acts that come from it when they are up for passing in Parliament. Liberal critics have said that Harper is trying to make every bill a confidence motion and that he is trying to spark an election this fall.
Normally, only important items such as the budget or throne speeches are considered confidence motions whereby if they do not pass the prime minister will have to call an election. Harper was the only person in Canadian history to introduce a non-confidence motion that wasn't attached to anything else like a budget. The motion was passed and now he is the prime minister.
I don't know about you but I don't think it's too much to ask that if a party supports the Throne Speech that they should support the components of it when they are trying to be passed in the legislature. If you support the throne speech that means you support what's in it. So if one of those things is being decided upon and you supported it before then you should support it now. This will avoid the situation where a party will support the Conservative throne speech just so we won't head into another election.
The current Conservative minority government is the smallest minority government in Canadian history but at the same time is the longest conservative minority government and 4th longest by any party.
- DCM
On Oct. 16th the fall session of Parliament will begin with the reading of the Speech from the Throne by the Governor General, Michaelle Jean. This speech is created by the Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party that will outline what it intends to do in the upcoming session. This includes budgets and acts that it will try to pass in Parliament.
Liberal leader Stephane Dion and Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe have both announced a list of requirements that the Throne Speech must include if the Conservatives want their support. NDP leader Jack Layton says he will wait to see the Speech before he makes the decision on whether or not he will support it. The Conservatives just need one of the three parties to support the speech in order for it to pass. However, PM Stephen Harper has said that if a party supports the speech then it better be ready to support all of the acts that come from it when they are up for passing in Parliament. Liberal critics have said that Harper is trying to make every bill a confidence motion and that he is trying to spark an election this fall.
Normally, only important items such as the budget or throne speeches are considered confidence motions whereby if they do not pass the prime minister will have to call an election. Harper was the only person in Canadian history to introduce a non-confidence motion that wasn't attached to anything else like a budget. The motion was passed and now he is the prime minister.
I don't know about you but I don't think it's too much to ask that if a party supports the Throne Speech that they should support the components of it when they are trying to be passed in the legislature. If you support the throne speech that means you support what's in it. So if one of those things is being decided upon and you supported it before then you should support it now. This will avoid the situation where a party will support the Conservative throne speech just so we won't head into another election.
The current Conservative minority government is the smallest minority government in Canadian history but at the same time is the longest conservative minority government and 4th longest by any party.
- DCM
Comments
The Governor General of Canada is a “corporation sole”, according to Elizabeth II in this document. A “corporation sole” is defined and recognized as being a corporation.
It is a fiction that a corporation is a person.
“A corporation is a fiction, by definition, ...”, according to Patrick Healy in a statement found in evidence provided to Parliament's Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights in 2002.
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“A corporation is a ‘fiction’ as it has no separate existence, no physical body and no ‘mind’”, according to Joanne Klineberg in a presentation to the Canadian Aviation Safety Seminar in 2004.
Do Canadians want businesses, companies, their government, and their Queen to operate in the realm of reality, or in the realm of fiction?