3refs, WHAT national identity? The one we borrowed from Britain? Multiculturalism IS our national identity.

Somebody needs to tell Stephen Harper that he isn't President. He is Prime Minister with no real executive power, certainly none to shut down the government—which is what shutting down Parliament has done. He went whining to Momma because things weren't going his way. As leader of the party that holds a minority government, why was he having a secret meeting with the Governor General to decide to shitcan for 2 months the government WE elected?

He took a stupid partisan gamble that he could get a Non-Con vote and blame the fact we were having another election on the opposition. It didn't work. The opposition parties were deciding on another perfectly legal option. It was blowing up in Harper the Sharper's face so what does he do. He padlocks up the company shithouse and goes home (not the first time he's done that). All of this at a time when we can ill afford such uncertainty from our so-called government.

Terrible PM. Maybe he'd make a better dictator.