It’s not nearly as fun pointing these things out when the guy giving the quotes is aware that he’s full of shit but, via a Macleans commenter: “These are his words and it’s perfectly fair to quote his words and cite his deeds.”– Pierre Poilievre; in defense of May 2009 attacks ads against Michael Ignatieff. […]

“As you know, as part of our economic action plan, one of the things we’ve of course done is to step up government advertising. One of the purposes of that has been to support media outlets during the recession that have been particularly hard-hit.” – Stephen Harper, A-Channel Ottawa, Jan. 11.

…Cabinet Shuffle Speculation!!! In Ottawa! In Alberta! In Ontario!

From Tony Clement: Industry Minister Tony Clement (said) Monday that ordinary Canadians don’t consider prorogation to be a big issue. ”I know it’s a big issue with the Ottawa media elite and some of the elites in our country.” For those keeping track, there are now over 155,000 elitists in the Canadians Against Prorogation Facebook […]

From a Liberal press release, some oldies and goodies: “The Liberals, apparently, want to prorogue the House. They want to run out of town, get out of town just one step ahead of the sheriff. Is the Liberal government committed to staying here as planned throughout the month of November so that it can be […]

There’s been a lot of back and forth over just how meaningful the ever-growing “Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament” group really is. Membership was at 73,367 when I started writing this post…I imagine it will have grown by the time I’m done. On the one side, the Toronto Star has adopted its usual understated approach, blasting […]

72… 71… 70… 69…68… Two legislature members from Alberta’s governing Progressive Conservatives are defecting to the Wildrose Alliance, a fledgling political party gathering momentum in the province. Calgary-Fish Creek MLA Heather Forsyth and Airdrie-Chestermere MLA Rob Anderson announced the move Monday morning at a Wildrose Alliance news conference.

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2009 was a great year for the NDP, showing courage by opposing Harper to try and force an election, then showing courage by supporting Harper to avoid an election. These pics come from a wide range of sources, but big hat tips to Dan Cook and Mitch Raphael.

Harper will shut down Parliament yet again, and appoint 5 new Senators in January: Prime Minister Stephen Harper will ask the governor general to prorogue Parliament today until early March, CTV News has learned. Parliament is currently on Christmas break and MPs are scheduled to return to the House on January 25. But speculation has […]