On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Adam Maas <[email protected]> wrote: > Proroguing government is the best idea Harper's had in a long time. > MP's who aren't in Parliament aren't creating problems. I'm convinced > that the one thing Texas got truly right was the part time > legislature. You can't pass stupid laws if Parliament isn't sitting, > and the longer it's sitting the more likely that the MP's will decide > to Do Something, usually something stupid, to make themselves feel > useful. > > I really wish that MP's and MPP's had to spend at least as much time > doing real work as they do sitting in the legislature. If only so I > could see them doing road work in the middle of the summer.
Sure - why bother to ever have them sit? Let's just permanently suspend parliament so those pesky MPs never have to bother us with their stupid laws again. cheers, frank ps: you ~were~ being tongue-in-cheek, right Adam? -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
