Sometimes I can't help but wonder why we Canadians allow ourselves to be so misled and blinded by immediate hoo-haa instead of taking a minute to think about the implications of the stuff we burp out of our mouths.  I'm not a pro-Harper gal, but a brief look at history tells us that prorrogation is not a rare occurrence at all.  In fact, in the 143 years of Canadian history, the parliament has been prorrogued for 103 times for different reasons.  Some prorrogations lasted but a day, and the longest one, contrary to what others might think, is the one by Jean Chretian for a whopping 4 months.  Not to mention the 3 other times in his 10 year of office or the 11 times that Pierre Trudeau did it throughout his 16 years in power.

All that is to say that this is politics we're talking about - of course the governing party is going to do things to advance its political agenda, what is so appalling about that?  If we're going to blame Harper for supressing democracy in this country, we ought to ask ourselves why we didn't do the same to Chretien or previous leaders in the past who did the same thing in a much more elaborated way.  If we finally see the absurdity in this, then let's move on, Canadians, to issues that demand more attention from us.