The Harper regime is in total disarray. There’s blood in the water and its overflowing into the PMO’s office. The resignation of Helena Guergis (the fine gal who likes to take pre-menstral fits at airport security checkpoint and has dalliances with disreputable entrepreneurs) is the biggest scandal to hit our great leader’s not so happy face since the resignation of Maxime Bernier. I am referring to the former foreign minister who also had problems when his love interest or his tryst with Julie Couillard compromised the ruling party, its great leader, “national security” and NATO’s reputation as well.

Our great leader all in all has had a disastrous week indeed. In the post prorogation era his government is now teetering or maybe even about to fall. The government is in total contempt of Parliament and still refuses to have over files and documents related to the “Afghan detainee” affaire. NDP MP Thomas Mulcair, in a recent interview on CKUT’s “Friday Morning After” show compared this defiance of Parliament to the final days of President Nixon and the “Watergate” scandal. Back then Nixon refused to hand over potentially compromising secret known as the “White House tapes” (telephone recordings) to the Senate investigative committee. He finally relented when the U.S supreme court ordered him to do so. The taped evidence of his complicity in the Watergate break-in and the subsequent cover up which ensued eventually brought down his presidency.

A similar situation is now occurring in Ottawa. If Harper refuses to hand over the documents to the Afghan parliamentary inquiry, then he risks a full-frontal confrontation with the House on the Hill, before the end of this current session. Perhaps the Canadian Supreme court will have to also, at some point intervene and demand that his he had over the requested documents material.

On Afghanistan itself, it is perhaps interesting to note how the Defence Minister takes us all for fools. He has the gumption to invoke the respect of Canadian democracy and our Parliament when referring to the possible withdraws of our troops from there. The man who was most certainly also complicit in shutting down Parliament along with our great leader when the opposition demanded he provide and disclose to Parliament all documents related to the alleged torture of Afghan prisoners while in Canadian custody said this week while on a visit to Kandahar: “We cannot be here prompting and protecting the democracy of Afghanistan and not respect the democracy of our own Parliament.” Mr.Minister shame on you! With all due respect, how can you seriously say such things, while you are complicit in withholding the Afghan documents and stonewalling or deliberately delaying or if need be even proroguing Parliament whenever the elected opposition wants to oust you rogues out office over this issue.

Your regime is a minority government and lacks democratic legimacy. It has already twice shut down the democratic institution of this country. Is this how you respect democracy here? To make such outlandishly hypocritical statements abroad is a disgrace to all Canadians who value what's left of our dying democracy here at home. Your leader and party are in contempt of Parliament and your party, has nothing but total disdain for democratic institutions and the citizenry it represents. In view of the recent actions of the governing party (including the most recent scandal) the democractic credentials of the Conservative Party are questionable at best or and its actions are possibly even treasonous at worst. Mr. Minister, it is in my view and perhaps that of many other Canadians as well ( the thousands who demonstrated against the Harper regime during prorogation nation-wide) , perhaps time for your government to step down or wait to be thrown out of office in the coming general elections .