Taking to the streets
Local activists have mobilised. In an email received today, which states:
Some of us are planning a quick rally in front of Rick Norlock's office Jan. 23, and those who wish will then car-pool to Peterborough for their rally. Since it's at 1:00PM, I guess we'll leave at 12:10, and gather around 11:45.An open invitation has been extended to all. Please address all enquiries to Wilf Day And as well as the ruling party facing opposition the Facebook group Canadians against proroguing Parliament has now grown to 185,156. Not quite an Iranian revolution yet but respectable.
it now seems that the Greens are being mobilised as well, to join the demo at Norlock's office. Party members received an email from the local green to join those already committed. Good for them but sadly will only make the first commenter in a previous thread happy to see one of his two observations come true:
John Draper said...
How many of the protestors will be die-hard NDP and Liberal supporters who would never vote conservative anyway? My informal survey says that most people simply don't care.
It appears that plenty of people care 195,124 people have joined the Facebook protest already!
2 comments:
Here are some of my reasons for being very unhappy with the prorogation of parliament:
-it is an attempt to bury the inquiry into the Afghan detainees, thus
-burying their illegal complicity in torturing prisoners since 2006 or so that we know of, thus
-burying the outright lies told by the ruling party to parliament and the people since then
-their contempt of parliament and the people in refusing to hand documents ordered by the courts over to the inquiry
-more lies to the people about why parliament was prorogued to try and get around the truth
-the contempt shown by this government to the people of Canada in thinking we are this shallow, this stupid
And Harper thinks we'll all just roll over and let him get away with this? Not bloody likely.
I'll be there and I hope to see plenty of others too.
so, what happened?
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