Why do we bother electing MPs? No, really. The “uniparty” supports the disastrous Mark Carney budget then lies about it. So why have a Parliament? Why not just elect a man on horseback every four years or so if he lets us? Or did we?

During and after the election, the “official Opposition” and the smoking ruins of the NDP declared Carney worse than the worst thing ever, his fiscal policy a frivolous plunge into insolvency or malevolent slashing austerity, then hatched a cunning plan to pass it. So what did we send them there for?

Avi Lewis, a rising brown dwarf in the NDP, railed : “I’m with the majority of the NDP caucus who voted against this austerity budget that would have made Stephen Harper smile, a gusher of corporate welfare and weapons spending.”

Boo Harper. Boo austerity. S

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