Welcome to Harperville: “Smoke and fire down your pants”

[Ottawa - After more than five years as the leader of minority governments, Prime Minister Stephen Harper finally lost the confidence of the House of Commons on Friday...

“The vote today, which obviously disappoints me will, I suspect, disappoint most Canadians,” Harper said. - March 26, London Free Press]

Welcome, one and all, to Harperville... the wee little corner of the universe inhabited by a reformer, deformer and smoke and fire performer of some caliber, and all those who know and love him.

I present to you the Prime Minister of Canada.

Before he says a few words, however, let me just say that Friday’s vote should have disappointed the Prime Minister. It should have disappointed each member of the House of Commons and each law-abiding citizen of Canada, even those in Harperville.


[“Harper is not even half disappointed”: photo link]

But it should disappoint us for the right reasons.

The following comes from an insider’s view of the House:

“And now the House has found the government in contempt, for the first time in Canadian history, as well as the first time in the entire history of the Commonwealth. The PM dismissed it all this past weekend as procedure; the Speaker has concluded it is pivotal.” - The Parallel Parliament

Harper, along with the rest of Canada, should be disappointed that he is the only Canadian Prime Minister in history to be found in contempt of Parliament. But will Harper say one word about what makes him so contemptuous?

Let’s hear what he has to say for himself. Shhh. He’s about to speak.

I'm standing quite a ways back from the podium now, and I think he said that he's come to blow smoke and fire down your pants!

Stink. Business as usual, as one might expect.

More to follow.

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