Alta4ever

they will have the ability to re constitute in March and ask the questions.

The reason for the program was entrenched in the constitution as an addition in 1982, the program itself is not. http://www.fin.gc.ca/fedprov/eqp-eng.asp

By who? the chair sets the meeting schedual, the chair is a conservative mp

Considering government mps chair the commitees they weren't going to be recalled. http://www2.parl.gc.ca/procedure-book-livre/Document.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&sbdid=DC42FA65-ADAA-426C-8763-C9B4F52A1277&sbpid=C272D45A-5BF5-4DF6-A4DF-F5B569CB8723#8CA7B853-0BA3-48CE-B433-D110F50D2A2F

It could have come back in feb too. So what, it is constitutional, it is a tool of our democracy.

The committee would have to be in session to ask the questions, where any committees scheduled to meet today? How about yesterday, tomorrow? Oh right that answer was no.

I didn't see the questions in the polls that asked if the respondent voted in the last election or if they intended to vote in the next election. No such argument about the senate has been dismantled but every argument you have made about prorogation you have made has been dismantlement.

What have you done to earn a portion of my pay check?

Even if Parliament wasn't prorogued they still couldn't ask those questions today, because parliament was going to sit until January 25th anyway.

It was from an NDPer, who seems to understand the political landscape of alberta.

more bills remained unchanged in that session of parliament then changed,

They couldn't ask them over the Christmas break either as the commons committees were not sitting.

yippie skippy a blog, your really grasping at straws now. Fact is those who are unaware can't be dissimissed, those that don't care about this may in fact care about other issues and there is no way to extrapolate out of the data that this is the segment does not vote that is just inferred by the author of the blog. There is no data in either of the polls to back the statements of the blogger you cited.

Absurd! In march when the house sits are the opposition Mps not going to be able to ask questions?

all of Canada you do have something that shows that Canada is 100% against the government, so far no poll released has such data. In fact all of the polls posted here today shows that more people either don't know about or aren't really following it.

As it was pointed out before no one has been censored, this isn't the war measures act, prorogation doesn't suspend any rights. The opposition is still very much able to say what it wants, it can issue all kinds of press releases and when parliament resumes on March 3 the opposition will be able to asks the questions that are burning them up.

sarcasm doesn't translate well on these forums.

So what is your opinion knowing that an American delivered the Key note speech at the 2006 Liberal Party Leadership convention?

36th parliament first session an most bills that received royal assent are not amended, but passed as approved by the hoc. Most as I went through the bills most were passed through the senate within 2-3 months. http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Housebills/billsgovernment.aspx?Parl=36&Ses=1&Language=E&Mode=1 Funny the senate did seem to play games then.

How much liberal government was legislation was changed by the liberal dominated senate?

The only Parliamentary, procedure I am aware of that allows the Prime Minister to do the things that posters in these forums accuse the government of is the war measures act.

Quote and cite of a conservative MP saying such a thing please.

Thirty peices of 60 some. Three major peices of legislation where being changed by the senate through senate committee work, the most contentious the truth in sentencing legislation which had passed the HOC on a unanimous vote.

Has the issue gone away....nope its still in the media. So proroguing has done no such thing, and as was said before the opposition can stand up in the house and ask the questions when parliament resumes. In Fact the average session lasts 207 days the 40th parliament had 338 days. http://www.parl.gc.ca/Common/index.asp?Language=E http://www2.parl.gc.ca/parlinfo/compilations/parliament/Sessions.aspx?Language=E

Funny the red meat conservative private members bills aren't being killed and the government bills can be reintroduced without liberal meddling in the senate.