Harper No. 1 at proroguing Parliament

Dear Editor:

Conservative MP Dan Albas’s weekly rant was about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his prorogation of parliament.

Albas must have forgotten about Stephen Harper doing the same thing four times in six years.

Harper advised that the first session of the 39th Parliament be prorogued on Sept. 15, 2007, and that the second session be summoned with a Speech from the Throne on Oct. 16, 2007.

Harper’s second prorogation (Dec. 5, 2008-Jan. 26, 2009) and his third (Dec. 31, 2009 -March 3, 2010) proved more controversial because they gave the government tactical advantage over the Opposition by, respectively, postponing a vote of confidence and a parliamentary investigation into the Afghan detainee file.

This was the PM that Albas backed on every decision for all those years. Funny how his memory is so jaded.

I’m not defending Trudeau and his entitled attitude lately either. Anyone with some common sense would have asked the other parties to weigh in on the WE plan, but unfortunately that didn’t happen.

I find it comical that a one-dimensional party that hasn’t really had a leader for months now because they booted their present one for incompetence and corruption and is in the middle of a leadership race, sees fit to continuously point fingers at a government that is trying to fight a pandemic and its financial issues to keep Canadians healthy, without one iota of help from the Tories.

R. St. Martin, Lake Country