Letter to my MP, James Moore, Minister of Heritage

The Honourable James Moore, MP
Minister of Heritage
2603 Saint Johns Street
Port Moody, BC
V3H 2B5

03 January 2010

Dear James Moore,

I am writing to express my complete dismay at the decision of your party leader, prime minister Stephen Harper, to prorogue Parliament for the second time in two years. These evasive manoeuvres amount to an open defiance of Parliament and the people of Canada, the voters, and we have now plunged further down the slippery slope of cynical electoral unaccountability. The only members of the public who voted for the prime minister were his Calgary constituents: he is not a President, thankfully, and he has no authority to abuse dusty instruments from the Canadian Constitution and Westminster model, denying us representation.

The Conservative Party has exposed its latent illiberalism, and the caucus (with the cabinet) resembles numerous little Quislings, obedient only to ‘party’ principles and so-called ‘leadership’ at the expense of Canadian democracy and its once respected traditions. May I remind you that your party only received 36% of the popular vote in the last election and that you have effectively closed the doors on the remaining 64%, if not on some of your own supporters who still cherish the democratic way of life.

Given that you will now have more time on your hands, I presume the decency of a reply is in order, for there is far more at issue than your party’s Machiavellian short term political advantage. There is no transparency, only subterfuge – and an unpalatable calculation that assails countless generations of accrued political values. The 800^th anniversary of the Magna Carta will be coming up in 5 years, and pretty soon we will have nothing to celebrate, at least not in Canada. Detaining Parliament and its elected representatives is no answer in a modern democracy.

I hope I make myself clear.

Sincerely,

Joerge Dyrkton, D.Phil.
cc http://www.joergedyrkton.blogspot.com/
cc joe.hueglin@bellnet.ca