{"id":616971,"date":"2009-12-30T15:50:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T20:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/?p=8638"},"modified":"2009-12-30T15:50:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T20:50:56","slug":"another-sad-day-for-democracy-in-canada-%e2%80%93-pm-suspends-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/616971","title":{"rendered":"Another sad day for democracy in Canada \u2013 PM suspends Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><\/p>\n<p>Today is another sad day in Canadian history and for Canadian democracy. Prime Minister <strong><a title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Harper\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Harper\" >Stephen Harper<\/a><\/strong> has decided it fits his political interests to shutdown the parliament and don&#8217;t reopen it until March 3rd (delay from the scheduled date of Jan 25th). The PM&#8217;s action is amount to holding in contempt the democratic process and tradition in Canada and turning <a title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prorogation#Prorogation\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prorogation#Prorogation\" >prorogation<\/a> into his favourite toy &amp; tool to avoid being held accountable by parliamentarians elected by Canadians from sea to sea.<\/p>\n<p>See reports from <a title=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/article\/744175--pm-suspends-parliament\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/article\/744175--pm-suspends-parliament\" >TorStar<\/a>, <a title=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/politics\/story\/2009\/12\/30\/parliament-prorogation-harper.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/politics\/story\/2009\/12\/30\/parliament-prorogation-harper.html\" >CBC<\/a>., and <a title=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20091230\/harper_parliament_091230\/20091230?hub=TopStoriesV2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20091230\/harper_parliament_091230\/20091230?hub=TopStoriesV2\" >CTV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Posted in Calgary, Canada, Democracy, Law, politics  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8638\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8638\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8638\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8638\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8638\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8638\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8638\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8638\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8638\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8638\/\" \/><\/a> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?w=780\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is another sad day in Canadian history and for Canadian democracy. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has decided it fits his political interests to shutdown the parliament and don&#8217;t reopen it until March 3rd (delay from the scheduled date of Jan 25th). The PM&#8217;s action is amount to holding in contempt the democratic process and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":780,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Av9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/780"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}