lydia you moron
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So how about Canadian politics? It is pretty crazy, seriously! Parliamentary mechanisms beyond the ken of us American simpletons! The Governor-General being forced to make an actual decision, precipitating the biggest constitutional crisis over the proper role of the Governor General since the King-Byng Thing! Jack Layton’s comically large signature, so imposing and awe-inspiring as to require a period in order to contain it! Tories accusing the opposition of being socialists because that worked just great when the Republicans tried it here! Liberals and NDP signing pacts, cats marrying dogs, up is down, left is right! Crazytown!
As far as I’m concerned, Harper is getting just what he deserved. He’s the head of a minority government with the support of like 37 percent of Canadian voters, not the God King of the Canadian Empire, so if he’s going to try to destroy all of the opposition parties with absolutely no mandate at all of fucking course he’s going to get his ass run out of Ottawa on a rail. Good riddance, you Reform Party goons.
oh god the end of the presidential election has made my political withdrawal this bad
Our current Governor General is a wimp. She doesn’t need to worry about whether she’s allowed to make a decision: she has and always has had the powers to (a) refuse to dissolve a Government, even should the Privy Council ask that of her, (b) dissolve Government when Parliament shows no confidence in it and (c) given that Parliament has no confidence in one particular party, can grant Government to another party. However, she failed to exercise (a) when she should have done, and if she cops out on (b) and (c) I think we should go to the United Kingdom and bring back a real aristocrat instead of a washed-up former entertainer.
Or maybe we could make Wayne Gretzky our GG. He’d be a great head of state. People in other countries already suspect we’re a bunch of politely but entirely hockey-mad whackos; of course, they’re right, and we would be honest to admit it.
(For those not in the know, Wayne Gretzky was the Great One, perhaps the best hockey player ever to have put on skates. He’s also a nice guy, but he’s no wimp. Generations of Canadian kids grew up with him as a role model. He’s as iconically Canadian as doughnuts with the UGH in the middle. Quebecois would perhaps point to Gretzky’s own hero, Maurice Richard, as the best-ever player, but he’s too old for the job of Gouverneur-General, and though absolutely no wimp, he’s very far from nice.)
Who knew that the almost-entirely-ceremonial function of Governor General could be so essential to the running of a modern state? … well, we should have.
Whoopsie — one other problem with putting the Rocket in Ottawa. He’s kind of stuck where he is, six feet below his home town of Montreal. He’s at least as iconically Canadian as Gretzky, of course, but though the office of Governor General is moribund … ;-)
Weird how the mysterious stranger is still fully clothed.
Also, is that a roman empire themed RPG? How does that work in the world of Heliothaumic? (Is there a chartanian empire that paralells the roman empire, like there was a Marchurian one on ML2?)
Cmaster, she has her clothes on because she’s just THAT good. Seriously, I think she must be some major or minor deity.
As for Canadian politics I’m loving this. The best part was when Harper said that it was anti democratic and anti Canadian. He apparently forgot that our country was founded in a minority government deadlock, and it was only because of a coalition government that we truly began.
Harper thought that by doing this early that he’d manage to cut the other parties off at the knees, and that since no one wants an election this close after the previous one the other parties (or at least the Liberals) would stand by and watch it happen.
But somehow over the past few months the Liberals developed a spine. I think it might have something to do with having nothing to loose at this point.
The opposition parties know that they can’t keep this coalition together, they are too dissimilar, but that’s not the point. This isn’t about forming the government, any more than the defeat of the Paul Martin Liberals was. It is about slapping down an upstart.
I guess their empire would be the age that would be looked back to for role-playing purposes. Nice touch. Its always the little lthings I like
So the Governor General suspended Parliament, what is this bullshit
overthrow the monarchy
burn rideau hall
Judging by the look on Lydia’s face and the way her lover looks, I guess it’s her teacher or someone similarly socially superior who should in no way affiliate herself with Lydia in this particular way?
Or that she’s cheating on her girlfriend.
…wait a minute, that’s Julia Tertia. She’s too old for you, Lydia!