The Kids of Today Scare Me...

For anyone who still watches the news, I am sure you are aware of a group of protesters that stormed the House of Commons to protest a Private Members Bill that was tabled by the NDP.

I won’t even get into the details of the bill, because private members bills are the very definition of my tax dollars being wasted by way of MP’s salaries going into debating legislation that:

1) Has no money attached to it.
2) Is unenforceable.
3) Has no legislative teeth even if it passes.

Basically even if legislation that promised a chicken in every pot passed via a private members bill, since there is no money tied to these bills it would pretty well equal up to the government wasting hours debating the bill to conclude that having a chicken in every pot would be a good idea, however doing nothing to actually get a chicken into Canadians pots so to speak.

So for these rocket scientists that opted to storm the house of commons to defend a piece of legislation that has less value then the paper I used this morning in the washroom as I was thumbing through the latest issue of Cosmo and learning “If my guy is really that into me”, it ended poorly as they were escorted out by Commons security and resulted in two Commons guards being sent to the hospital in the process.

Yeah, some of the protesters were hurt.
However, none of them were hurt enough to bother discussing it.

Now the accusation by Conservative MP Jay Hill, is that NDP leader Jack Layton actually booked the room that these protesters used to practice their chants before they stormed the Commons.

Have a read here:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/bureau-blog/did-jack-layton-know/article1340688/

I understand that it’s hard to get excited about what passes as a “scandal” these days in Ottawa, where you have the Liberals holding press conferences to discuss how certain websites are “Blue” and the conspiracy theory that the Canadian Olympic Logo is a defacto Conservative Party of Canada Logo.

Because I for one can assure you that during the last election, the last thing I saw was a red car in the parking lot which mesmerized me so much that I simply needed to vote Liberal…

See that is the problem with the NDP, not enough Orange cars on the road.

What passes for scandal in Ottawa is clearly not as sexy as it use to be.

However,
If Jack had anything to do with these young folks storming into Parliament then as far as I am concerned, that is a pretty sexy scandal.

One that a Conservative or Liberal MP would need to resign as a result of.

Although, it doesn’t seem to be getting any airplay?

Had Iggy pulled this stunt, it would have resulted in a lead story on most news networks?

Had Harper pulled this stunt, there would be a seven day exposé in the Toronto Star, and CBC would have broken into the middle of Pit Pony to drop this bomb.

I think this really does explain why the NDP is stuck in the mud, and destine to because the fourth party till they are overtaken and forgotten, because this sort of thing seems to get the standard response of:

“Come on, It’s Vintage Jack”

While at the end of the day, its good news because Jack can continue to lead and fight the good fight regardless of if he was in anyway involved or not which we really don’t know.

However, if the NDP ever wants to become a viable opposition party they have to stop acting like the spoiled younger brother who’s parents are too tired from raising the first few kids that they just give in when little Jackie stomps up and down, or holds his breath.

The fact that most media outlets don’t find this news worthy, when a Press Conference of Wayne Easter shaking a doorknob last week made page one on many of the news websites seems to be indicative of the fact that we don’t hold the NDP to the same standard we hold the other parties.

Which has to make you wonder if voters’ en mass can ever hold the NDP to a high enough standard to give them more then 40 seats in the Commons?