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<blockquote data-quote="pickup" data-source="post: 941409">Apparently, there was more to it than &quot;let&#039;s break for the Olympics, we can&#039;t focus on making laws and watching curling at the same time&quot;.<a href="http://www.economist.com/node/15213212" target="_blank">Canada&#039;s Parliament: Harper goes prorogue | The Economist</a>Seems that Mr. Harper had more pressing reasons to get Parliament to disappear for an unprecedented amount of time.Excerpt from article:Never mind what his spin doctors say: Mr Harper’s move looks like naked self-interest. His officials faced grilling by parliamentary committees over whether they misled the House of Commons in denying knowledge that detainees handed over to the local authorities by Canadian troops in Afghanistan were being tortured. The government would also have come under fire for its lack of policies to curb Canada’s abundant carbon emissions. Prorogation means that such committees—which carry out the essential democratic task of scrutinising government—will have to be formed anew in March. That will also allow Mr Harper to gain immediate control of committees in the appointed Senate, where his Conservatives are poised to become the biggest party.So Mr. Klein, why no postings about this when it was occurring? Were you blissfully unaware? and if so was it because you were more worried about what goes on south of your border than what goes on within your borders?Or were you aware and just chose not to share because it would show your Country not to be the utopia you claim it to be?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pickup, post: 941409"] Apparently, there was more to it than "let's break for the Olympics, we can't focus on making laws and watching curling at the same time". [URL="http://www.economist.com/node/15213212"]Canada's Parliament: Harper goes prorogue | The Economist[/URL] Seems that Mr. Harper had more pressing reasons to get Parliament to disappear for an unprecedented amount of time. Excerpt from article: Never mind what his spin doctors say: Mr Harper’s move looks like naked self-interest. His officials faced grilling by parliamentary committees over whether they misled the House of Commons in denying knowledge that detainees handed over to the local authorities by Canadian troops in Afghanistan were being tortured. The government would also have come under fire for its lack of policies to curb Canada’s abundant carbon emissions. Prorogation means that such committees—which carry out the essential democratic task of scrutinising government—will have to be formed anew in March. That will also allow Mr Harper to gain immediate control of committees in the appointed Senate, where his Conservatives are poised to become the biggest party. So Mr. Klein, why no postings about this when it was occurring? Were you blissfully unaware? and if so was it because you were more worried about what goes on south of your border than what goes on within your borders? Or were you aware and just chose not to share because it would show your Country not to be the utopia you claim it to be? [/QUOTE]

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