Why isn't parliament sitting？
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Summary
Why is Justin Trudeau's decision to halt Parliament not causing more frustration, more outrage, more scrutiny, more oversight, more accountability? Why is it not causing outrage from the press, from members of the public, from the opposition, and from the Liberals themselves?
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Why is Justin Trudeau's halting of Parliament justified?
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Why is it not causing more frustration, more outrage from members of the press,
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from people in the public, from the opposition even, from the NDP Jagmeet Singh,
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who enabled us to get to the position we are right now?
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You almost hear more outrage at the fact that Conservative opposition leader Andrew Scheer
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has been suggesting these past couple months that Parliament does matter,
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yes, we should, be gathering more than just 30 people, 30 MPs, in the House of Commons
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for the occasional session, one that does not bring the same accountability.
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We've recently heard from Finance Minister Bill Morneau that there will be no budget,
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no economic update of the sort, because, well, things being as they are,
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it's hard to tell how much is going in and how much is going out,
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so we can't accurately predict the future, so what's the point?
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I'm paraphrasing, but he said something not too dissimilar from all of that.
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He did assure us that Parliamentarians, the Cabinet, that the Prime Minister himself
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Yes, they're giving their press conferences, their spin, their press releases, their tweets.
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That is not the same as government accountability, and isn't now, this time period we're in,
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this period, this pandemic, where the stakes are so high,
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isn't that the time when you need oversight and scrutiny more than ever?
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Now look, back during March, say, you could argue, back during early April,
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you could argue, well, hold on a second, it's not safe, it's too dangerous for MPs
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That's clearly been proven not to be accurate after the Prime Minister chose to go out
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and join a protest, a very large gathering of thousands of people.
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Surely, if they can make that work, they can make Parliament work right now.
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But it's not going to happen unless people ask for it to happen.
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Liberals are clearly quite content and satisfied with the way the status quo is going right now.
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They don't really have to worry about the pesky opposition as much as they used to.
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So it's going to be up to the public, to the people, to make some noise and to say,
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We deserve and we demand government accountability.
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Please press on your journal and write out the link,
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And, um, breasts will be confessed and executed and enforced by doing such a long time.
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