Kneel Before the Queen of Canada

The Three Big Pigs of Canadian politics have finally cast the dice.

From the Globe and Mail:

The three opposition leaders are drafting a letter to Governor-General Michaëlle Jean in which they formally call on her to allow the formation of a coalition government if the Conservatives are defeated in the House of Commons next week.

Opposition sources said Monday the drafting of the letter is at an advanced stage, and will be made public with the agreement of the leadership of the Liberal Party, the New Democratic Party and the Bloc Québécois.

So the pigs have proved what they are. Who needs democracy when you can simply rule by fiat?

You may be asking how they can do this. Perhaps you didn't read my post from a few days back. You see, to seize power in Canada, you do not have to hold an election. You can simply write a letter to the Governor General and let her decide who should be running the country. She can tell them to take a hike if she wants to, or she can wave her magic wand and proclaim their coalition the new boffo leadership party of Canada. Just like that.

Her Royal Highness
Michaëlle Jean is Canada's Governor General. She's never been elected to anything in her life. Like her predecessor, she's a former CBC TV reporter, making her more than able to decide the fate of Canada's leadership and call herself Canada's Commander-in-Chief (lemme guess: you didn't know that one either. But yes, the Governor General is called the Commander-in-Chief. Discuss amongst yourselves). She was appointed by Paul Martin, the former Liberal PM.

She has been accused of being a past Quebec separatist sympathizer, having attended a party with separatists at which she toasted, "Yes, one doesn't give independence, one takes it." She later said she was referring to Haiti, though the person who initiated the toast was referring to Martinique and Quebec. When asked which way she voted on the Quebec referendum of 1995, she punted the questions to the Paul Martin PM's office and kept her mouth shut. Strange, huh? Asking how someone voted can only be met with one of three answers: yes, no, or didn't. Jean refused to say.

She renounced her French citizenship (she was born in Haiti, but married a French guy) upon becoming Governor General in 2005. Her doc-filmmaker husband has been friends with Quebec separatists for years. In one book he wrote, "So, a sovereign Quebec? An independent Quebec. Yes, I applaud with both hands and I promise to attend all the St-Jean Baptiste Day parades." CTV says this appears to show his support for Quebec independence. Yes, and Niagara Falls appears wet.

So we have a group of people writing a letter to the Governor General, asking her to give them Canada's halls of power. One of the people writing the letter is a member of the party that gave her the cushy Governor General post, and another is a guy from a party with whom she may have political sympathies.

The response from Canada's press? More of the same: "Ho-hum. Nothing to see here."

People that lost an election are now trying to achieve power by seeking it from an unelected news reporter. Perhaps I'm the only one that sees this as a big deal. If that's the case, we're in big trouble.