So apparently three’s not enough for the Bloc NDP, at least when it comes to adding seats in the House of Commons.
The humorously titled democratic reform critic David Christopherson is quoted in the Globe and Mail:
The NDP is demanding Stephen Harper respect his own 2006 motion that recognized Quebeckers as a nation within a united Canada by changing its new bill to give the province more than three seats in an expanded Commons.
“That motion meant something. It was meant to mean something to the people of Quebec,” Opposition democratic-reform critic David Christopherson told The Globe recently. “But it will only mean something if they see that the House is respecting the spirit of what that was.
Seats in the House of Commons should be apportioned according to population across the country. That would be democratic.
Rather than do that, the Bloc NDP wants to give one province an entirely artificial share of the seats in the lower chamber of parliament. That’s decidedly undemocratic.
It’s also unsurprising, given that the party is now dominated by Quebec sovereignists.
Wonder how the Newfoundland sovereignists are going to explain their party’s stance on giving more power to Quebec.
Anyone heard from Ryan Cleary on this lately?
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