Shorter Deficit Jim Flaherty: The $33.7 $50.2 $55.9 billion deficit will be dealt with in some fashion at some time.

Shorter Ottawa Mayor Larry O’Brian: Flushing 90 million taxpayer bucks down the loo is just what we doo.

Murray Dobbin on Harper’s undemocratic nature.

Scorn for Parliament itself is high on the list of categories of contempt. Harper’s government simply declared that it would ignore the previous government’s signing of the Kyoto protocol. We withdrew from the UN’s Durban anti-racism conference, again with no reference to Parliament. Harper eliminated funding for English language classes given by an Arab organization because it also came out strongly in support of Palestinian rights. He casually announced that he was simply winding down the long-gun registry, passed by Parliament, with no intention of bringing it back to the House of Commons for reconsideration.

To try to destroy a key part of the parliamentary process, Harper produced a 200-page plus “guide” showing Conservative MPs how to thwart and otherwise frustrate the proceedings of Parliamentary Committees.

Check out the rest of the article for more example’s of Harper’s contempt for democracy.