Parliament has effectively been cancelled and the Liberals, with the backing of the NDP, have the free rein of an unaccompanied child with a bag full of cash in a candy store.
I am old enough to remember when Harper’s 2008 two-month prorogation of Parliament was met with furious protest and lamented as being an unprecedented assault on democracy. In law school, my first-year constitutional law professor made us debate it for an entire class. The Great Prorogation was a national scandal that consumed the media and academia for months. I am sure some earnest PHD student somewhere even wrote a thesis on it.
Fast-forward to 2020. As our nation is experiencing an unprecedented health and economic crisis, the prime minister has seemingly decided that Parliament is an inconvenience he would prefer not to deal with, like a daily meeting he would rather turn into a bi-monthly email.
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