That’s not the comparison that I made, that’s the comparison Allan Gregg made on the CBC tonight. Proroguing parliament as a Mugabe tactic? Ha. I’d buy it. Of course having Stephen Harper and Robert Mugabe come up together in Google searches would be a pity.
Stealing from the Robert Mugabe playbook
December 5, 2008 · 4 Comments
Categories: Canadian politics · Conservatives
Tagged: Allan Gregg, CBC, prorogation, Robert Mugabe, Stephen Harper
4 responses so far ↓
Beijing York // December 5, 2008 at 1:30 am |
From a Rabble Babble poster, Sean in Ottawa:
Steven Harper wants to shut down
parliament just because he does not agree with it.
Some say this is unprecedented.
In fact, Harper is following
parliamentary tradition.
Consider the following precedents:
1629 King Charles I in England
1799 Napoleon in France
1913: Victoriano Huerta in Mexico
1933: Adolf Hitler in Germany
1936 Fransisco Franco in Spain
1939: Benito Mussolini in Italy
1973: Augusto Pinochet in Chile
1975 Indira Gandhi in India
2008: Steven Harper in Canada
Great company Mr. Blue Sweater Vest PM.
Gene // December 5, 2008 at 1:58 am |
A bit late for this. Still, I’m sure many of us would find some solace in knowing that we are right to feel that this decision is wrong.
Dan // December 5, 2008 at 1:52 pm |
You know what, maybe I’m being a bit too harsh, I mean at least Mugabe seems to have gone through the motions of trying to work with opposition.
EPHI » A Goose Protesting A Prorogue // December 9, 2008 at 11:34 pm |
[...] He’s upset about Stephen Harper having the governor general prorogue the parliament, and agrees with Allan Gregg that this is a tactic befitting Robert [...]