"Bananada" ... cont'd ... from David Frum's Diary

"MAY. 13, 2005: FROZEN BANANA

"Is Canada hurtling toward full banana-republicdom? The Liberal corruption scandals every day take on horrifying new amplitude."

"Now we are learning that the Liberal Party in Quebec was effectively run by organized crime bosses - and that when one Liberal leader objected, he was threatened with death."

"The Liberals have lost a series of confidence votes in the House of Commons. On Wednesday and Thursday, the Conservatives won two votes to force adjournment. By long constitutional usage, a Westminster-system government that is forced to adjourn must either resign or call an election. But the Liberals, apparently taking their advice from the lawyers of Charles I, seem to believe that they can continue governing without the support of Parliament."

"In hopes of buying votes, they continue to announce lavish spending proposals - even as 400 years of British constitutional law denies a government that rules without a majority in Parliament the right to spend so much as a single penny." ...

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