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From: johnlw10/27/2022 11:50:30 AM
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Rex Murphy: Singh betrays NDP with pledge to grant Trudeau parliamentary immunity (msn.com)



"...The Singh-Trudeau compact is an insult to Parliamentary function. It protects the government from all confidence-vote challenges. It dwindles down to tacit co-operation on committees of inquiry. It mocks the voting result itself. The votes went for a minority, with the protections a minority offers to the Parliament as a whole. That it can restrain executive authority, numb the invisible influence of non-parliament actors in the PMO from running an agenda.

Most significantly, it guts genuine parliamentary oversight, and since parliamentary oversight is — give it some thought — the very purpose and essence of every Parliament, it nullifies the premiere institution of our entire democracy.

Mr. Singh’s deal with Mr. Trudeau’s is probably seen among the fixers and comms specialists and the cute spin masters of the Ottawa smart set as a real cool finesse. “Hey, we certainly fixed their boat.”

Here’s what the Liberal-NDP really is. The neutering of parliamentary rule, a cynical arrangement to bypass the expected provisions of democratic responsibility. A shield against genuine inquiry and investigation. A pact to avoid the deepest elements of democratic oversight.

Mr. Singh gives Mr. Trudeau the ability, unearned by electoral vote, to rule as a majority government. An ability the election he called in a pandemic denied him, one which he does not legitimately own, and one he now holds as a result of a purely political barter. These two have short-circuited the elements of our democracy...."
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