Most Canadians, including me, are usually passive about their domestic politics. We may agree or disagree with our leaders and their policies, but few of us ever go out and demonstrate in the streets. We don’t get too worked up about most things.
But my inbox contained a bit of news this morning that giave me pause.
There was a sort of echoey ringing in my right ear that I found bothersome. I realized finally that it was the distant sound of levers being pushed and pulled, reminding me of that great scene in the Wizard of Oz.
(You know the one, where the curtain is pulled aside and the "magic "of Oz is revealed- it turns out to be just the sneaky machinations of a little man who thrived on secrecy and deception).
The item concerned a delay in the opening of this fall’s session of Parliament, because our Prime Minister had decided he needed a slightly longer vacation. Things in his domain appeared to be moving along smoothly, so he felt he could just sit back and enjoy.
That venerable Ottawa insider, my former colleague Mike Duffy, had learned that Parliament would reconvene 29 days later than originally planned.
Perhaps there’s nothing to this news really
…and it’s not worth demonstrating in the streets about…but it did make me wonder. Does the "emperor" need time to put on some new clothes…for a coming election.
Hmmm.
Anyway, here’s the story.
