This is just intellectual rubbish, showing no understanding of the way parliaments work.
Actually, it is just plain rubbish, because there is nothing intellectual in Stanley Hartt's words.
In our system, a governing minority either has the confidence of the House or it does not.
Harper's Conservatives do not have the confidence of the House.
How could that be any clearer?
Uninformed speculation on motives for why the minority governing party has lost the confidence of the House is entirely irrelevant.
There is no validity in asking why each member of parliament has cast his or her vote on any issue at any time.
And just so here.
Once the people have spoken in an election - and they have just spoken with more than 60% of their votes cast against the Harper Conservatives - it is up to the members of Parliament to make arrangements there.
Second-guessing them is in fact what is anti-democratic.
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The Bloc is represented in Parliament.
The Bloc has actually been the Official Opposition.
The Bloc always participates in our election debates.
They have just as much legitimacy to act within the rules of Parliament as any other party does, and that is all they are doing.
It is actually darkly funny to hear Harperites attack the Bloc when it was their leader who recognized Quebec as "a nation," a cheap act done for the sake of gaining a few votes.
