Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Harper's constitutional crisis & the media...

All those years in politics, two university degrees, and access to the internet, and I missed it.

Apparently Trudeau slipped one by all of us when he patriated the constitution in 1982. While we were all reading the BNA Act, and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Trudeau slipped in the now infamous -- and hard to find -- cabinet meeting clause.

I'm talking about Stephen Harper's claim to have a constitutional right to hold secret cabinet meetings.

I'd never heard of this right until today, and I don't think anyone except Stephen Harper knew about it, but apparently it's there.

I just can't find it.

Maybe Stephen has the copy of the constitution with the invisible ink that only conservative decoder glasses can seen...

What, you don't have the decoder glasses?

But they come with every blue lawn sign... along with the instruction for the secret handshake, and the location of the clubhouse...

Ah, I remember government concerned about the constitutional rights of the individual, of the people... silly rabbit...

Stephen's also concerned about constitutional rights... his individual rights... nice, but it's not what you expect from some one who wants to be Prime Minister.

1 comment:

ottlib said...

Maybe Mr. Harper is just looking at an earlier draft of the Constitution.