Clear the kitchen counter (and oven) and start all over again
The obvious thing to do with mature bananas is to make a huge cake. Done. The thing to do with a “mature” government; prorogation. Done.
Now, my banana cake is in the oven, so technically I can’t refer to it as done just yet. I have cleaned up the kitchen. I’m not much of a cake maker either. My preference is roast beef with some lovely yellow potatoes. In fact, the cake is really for those around me. The recipe is a non-traditional one, requiring slow ovens and freezer wait states.
In the legislative kitchen of our nation, the chief cook has also decided to go with a non-traditional recipe for democracy. Just minutes ago, CBC announced that the current session of parliament, (number 40 session 2) has been proroged. There’s that word again. It seems like only a year ago that Mr. Minority decided to take all the marbles and go home for supper. Worked then, so why not get another meal under the belt.
Well, if I decided to take my busily baking cake out of the oven, right now, and pitch the whole thing into the big green bin, I’d have used exactly the same model for counter-productivity. Running a government isn’t cheap, and as a long suffering taxpayer I’m perturbed. Was the recipe really all that bad?
Time for a reality check. Once again, the debate has ended. We won’t get to hear who knew what about when in the Afghan detainee story. We’ll start all over again with a certain number of proposed bills, even though they were extremely important only two weeks ago. The meter on our taxi won’t be reset, though, so this ride is going to take even longer and cost even more than any deficit budget should allow.
