The Most Powerful Person in Canada This Week

December 1, 2008 · Posted in News, Personalities 

Want to bet she thought she’d be cutting ribbons and shaking hands with schoolchildren when she took this gig.

Now she will decide the outcome of the most contentious constitutional crisis to face Canada since The Charlottetown Accord.

Comments

  • Joel K.

    Dear GG,

    Please throw this power grab back in the faces of the Liberals, NDP’ers and the traitorous Bloc Quebecoic. Call a fresh election until the opposition parties will actually listen to the will of the people.

  • Kursk

    The woman had better be worthy of that companion of the order of Canada she has pinned to her breast..

  • wilson

    Some critical points:

    PMSHs government got increased mandate,
    in the Ontario coalition the reverse was true

    KingByng affair, the GG handed over the government to a single party, not 3

    The so called stimulus package the coalition is presenting has a total ,
    and no detail of distribution, therefore the grounds for seizure of power are baseless

    The representation for one of the regions is Canada would be rendered negligable, while the province of Quebec would be grossly over represented

  • Richard Romano

    “The representation for one of the regions is Canada would be rendered negligable, while the province of Quebec would be grossly over represented”

    A frightening prospect I had forgotten — truly scary times are ahead.

  • Phil

    “The representation for one of the regions is Canada would be rendered negligable, while the province of Quebec would be grossly over represented”

    You forgot to mention that Jack Layton, Gilles Duceppe, and Stephane Dion all come from Quebec. It truly looks like Canada is a colony of Quebec.

  • Cranky or Just a Crank

    Does anyone really thing that the GG won’t go along with usurpers?

    She’s a veteran CBC/Radio Canada hack appointed by and beholden to the Liberals that appointed her.

    How someone whose career basically required reading scripts to introduce canned documentaries and other clips on TV – not even produce any material content of her own – is somehow competent to attempt resolve consitutional matters is a joke.

    It’s time to start raising the walls, trnign off the money taps and working toward the independent Dominion of Alberta.

  • wilson

    The stats:

    Before the coup:
    4 Western provinces 72 seats in government
    Quebec 10 seats in government

    After the coup:
    4 Western provinces 23 seats in govt
    Quebec 65 (49 of which are separatist MPs)

    4 provinces, all in one region of the country, lose 49 seats in government

    Quebec gains 65 seats in government

  • Phil

    This is nothing short of treason and betrayal!

  • David in Saskatoon

    One of the GG’s constitutional responsibilities is to preserve and protect Canada’s national identity–this would seem to expressly forbid her from legitimizing a cabal that is effectively controlled by a regional party with the overt intent of breaking up the country

  • http://policana.wordpress.com PoliCana

    Remember that we do not vote for a Prime Minister, we elect a member of Parliament to represent us in the House of Commons. It’s up to the current Prime Minister to have the confidence of the house in order to govern. This is how we our represented.