Peter Braid in Hot Seat Over Prorogation

Despite using all the right talking points provided by Reform-Conservative party central, Peter Braid once again proved his incompetence, when interviewed by his local paper.

They suggest that prorogation is routine, and in fact they're right. The act itself is very routine and necessary.

However, historically, abuse of prorogation in the Westminster Parliamentary system has only been done three times. All three in Canada. Two by Harper.

Fortunately an expert was available to the Waterloo Chronicle to set the record straight.

David Docherty, a political science professor at Wilfrid Laurier University who studies parliament and written books about it, said he respectfully disagrees with Braid’s opinion.“It’s routine to have a prorogation after year two of a majority government, where a lot of the legislative agenda has run out,” he said.

According to the parliamentary website, the previous government was Prime Minister Paul Martin’s, which had one session. Docherty said that would not have required any prorogation. “Mr. Chretien had two prorogations, but he didn’t meet for two weeks, didn’t like what the opposition was doing, shut the gates and say, ‘Let’s come back after we’ve all cooled down a bit, I’m afraid to meet you.’”

And when questioned on the Afghan Detainee issue, Braid stated: "It’s clear there is no evidence whatsoever of any wrongdoing on the part of our Canadian forces.”

Again, no one has blamed the Canadian forces, other than the Conservatives in an attempt to transfer blame. It's the government who could be charged with war crimes, not any of our soldiers. Braid knows this. Harper knows this.

Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament are trying to keep these guys honest until we can kick them out. We will take our country back, one vote at a time.

I also belong to another group, Catch 22 Harper Conservatives. They are currently on Facebook, but are building a website with 22 ridings that we think we can take back. Kitchener-Waterloo will probably be one of them.

And Mr. Braid's conduct begs the questions:

IS THIS REALLY YOUR CANADA? IS PETER BRAID REALLY THE BEST CHOICE FOR KITCHENER-WATERLOO?

Peter Braid Wins Award for Asking Really Stupid Questions

Wikipedia describes a push poll as:

A push poll is a political campaign technique in which an individual or organization attempts to influence or alter the view of respondents under the guise of conducting a poll .... little or no effort is made to collect and analyze response data.

Instead, the push poll is a form of .. propaganda and rumor mongering, masquerading as a poll.

Harper's buddy, Karl Rove, was a master at push polling and the Reformers have developed their own Canadian style, under the guise of keeping constituents informed.

They do this mainly through what is called a ten per center, a term most Canadians are now all too familiar with.

After years of complaints by opposition members, with nothing being done; some have decided that if you can't beat 'em, you might as well join 'em. Not the best approach since the corporate media now justify the Reformer's vile behaviour by presenting similar by the NDP or Liberals.

However, statistics have shown that Harper's party abuses this privilege more than double the times by all other parties put together.

Blogger Rupert Taylor reports on one that he received from Peter Braid, and lists the absurd questions asked by a man who is proving to be a master of miscommunications.

1. “Michael Ignatieff, leader of the Liberal Party, was quoted in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record on April 19, 2004 saying, ‘We will have to raise taxes.’ Do you support a tax hike?”"

See how that was done? Right off the top he he uses 'Liberal - Ignatieff -raise taxes', to plant the seed of an idea. The fact that it was misleading, since Mr. Ignatieff did not say he was going to raise taxes, only that it might be an option to erase the deficit. Braid doesn't care what a respondent's answer is, because it doesn't matter. That was not the intent of the question.

2. “Are you satisfied with the performance of Prime Minister Harper?”

A legitimate question, though I'm told that anyone who returns this flyer to the address provided, and checks 'yes', has their name added to a database, and used in future fundraising.

3. “Do you approve of the Conservative government’s handling of the global recession?”

Wow! Handling of the global recession? Aren't we full of ourselves? But as Mr. Taylor points out "Barack Obama ... Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel, Gordon Brown, Yukio Hatoyama, and a few others have a bit of input." However, what this question does is deflect blame for the way the Conservatives have been mishandling our finances, to the 'global recession'. Not their fault. I beg to differ.

4. “Are you satisfied with the over $112 million in local investment Peter has helped secure for the riding since being elected in October 2008?”

A little self-promotion, but anyone who knows how this party operates, knows that Braid would have very little to do with securing anything. This is done at party central, and since this riding is vulnerable, unelected officials decided to throw OUR money into it.

5. “As part of its Economic Action Plan, the Conservative government will make $5 billion in new, strategic investments for research and innovation. Do you agree with this use of tax money?”

Again a little plug for the bogus Economic Action Plan, that has proven to be nothing more than a PR stunt.

So next time you get one of these, tell the government that you don't appreciate this abuse of our tax money. Don't mail it back to the address shown but to the office of the MP who sent it. Then write a letter to the editor of your local paper and the one of the offending MP, to let them know that this is totally unacceptable.

Canadians are not as stupid as the Reformers would like us to be, so they can keep this nonsense south of the border.

But now I have a couple of questions:

IS THIS REALLY YOUR CANADA? IS PETER BRAID REALLY THE BEST CHOICE FOR KITCHENER-WATERLOO?

Peter Braid Must be Replaced as Member of Parliament for Kitchener-Waterloo

Peter Braid won his seat in 2008, to become the Member of Parliament for Kitchener-Waterloo; by just 17 votes.

And while the Reformers have been throwing a lot of money; our money, into this area, knowing that Braid could be vulnerable next election; the MP himself has been a disgrace.

From meddling in student affairs to his abysmal performance on Power and Politics, he has proven that he is simply not cut out for the job.

Canadians deserve better than this and Kichener-Waterloo deserves better than this.

So his is a riding that I will be working on, helping in whatever way I can to promote his competition and expose his weaknesses. Braid also has a pretty heavy hitter, Kenneth Tam, on his communications team, so this will be all about messaging, something we'll have to counter.

Last election his closest competitor was Liberal Andrew Telegdi, who registered 21,813 votes to Braid's 21,830. Vote-splitting definitely affected the outcome, something we need to keep in mind.

UPDATE: I've learned two things. This definitely is one of the ridings that Catch 22 will be adopting and that Andrew Telegdi will be running again.

Since strategically he will be the best option to take out Braid, I'm throwing my efforts into promoting him. He's an experienced member of Parliament with an excellent record. I especially like his strong stand for human rights, something that out current government has all but abandoned.

Mr. Telegdi's website is here and his Facebook Page is here. You can read a great letter to the editor about Braid here:

I was also given a link to another Facebook group set up to remove him called MP Peter Braid Out of Office, so join that as well.

And you can email the Liberal riding president for Kitchener-Waterloo at this address: raclausi@kw.igs.net You can write a letter to the editor here: letters@therecord.comletters@therecord.com

We will get this riding back and we will take our country back. If you live in kitchener-Waterloo, here's what you can do:

1. Join the Liberal Party. It's only about $10.00 and is a great way to show your support. They will keep you up to date with what's happening in the community and on the federal scene.

2. If you are able to find a bit of time, volunteer; perhaps with canvassing or some other promotions.

3. If you can afford it at all, donate a bit now and then. I'm set up to contribute a regular monthly donation, but it's whatever you feel comfortable with. Remember that the Conservatives have a lot of wealthy backers and it takes money to launch a campaign.

4. Join Catch 22 Harper Conservatives to learn more tips, and encourage others to join. The web page for Braid is here.

5. Join Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament. There are more than 20,000 links to stories with reasons to vote the Reform-Conservatives out. The better informed you are the more motivated you will be.

6. Join Canadians Rallying to Unseat Stephen Harper - a group working to get rid of the Harper government once and for all.

I'll keep this page updated as often as possible and will continue to provide more reasons why Peter Braid and these destructive Reformers have got to go.

And I will also provide plenty of information, as to why Andrew Telegdi must be brought back.

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