Early election illegal, says D-Watch
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- On October 14, Canadians will be voting on whether or not George W. Harper will get to cooperate with Big Business for another year or two.
Or will they?
Not if Democracy Watch has anything to do with it.
It was in court this morning, “attempting to have the small matter of the federal election shut down before Canadians vote,” says the Ottawa Citizen.
“Prime Minister Stephen Harper has used the electoral system to his unfair advantage” and in doing so, broke his own Bill C-16, ” an Act to amend the Canada Elections Act including fixed election dates,” created a little over a year ago, charges D-Watch in a statement.
“Nothing in the Act affects the power of the Governor General to dissolve Parliament whenever the Governor General sees fit,” Harper said of a provision in the bill, making him, “look like a democracy reformer in favour of a fairer election system,” according to the group, which goes on:
“In reality he felt he could call an election whenever it suited him.”
D-Watch says Harper strategically decided to have an election on October 14, months in advance of the next official election set, “as per legislation,” for October 19, 2009.
Harper’s Conservatives, “were the only ones in a position to take advantage of unrestricted campaign spending opportunities because they were the only ones who knew an election was going to be called,” says the statement.
Ottawa Citizen – Legal challenge aims to scrub election, at least in theory, October 2, 2008
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October 3rd, 2008 at 11:32 am
“Stephen Harper has used the electoral system to his unfair advantage””
This is outrageous.
If Harper does not get his majority this time around might we expect another election 6 months down the road?
It’s not his money.
October 3rd, 2008 at 11:27 pm
The idea of fixed election was and still is a silly idea. However, at any time the government could have fallen on a confidence issue. Harper has consistently tried to bait the opposition into voting against various bill and legislation in order to have the government fail a confidence vote. D-watch is lost in the woods, and hopefully is not wasting tax-payers money with this ridiculous lawsuit.