I guess you you can say now former CTV political reporter Mike Duffy will soon be one of Harper's Conservative Senator's once he gets sworn in.  According to Duffy he got the call from Harper on Saturday Dec. 20/2008.  Duffy will represent his home province of PEI.  I'll miss Duffy's political insight because it was always entertaining!   Get this he & every other senator in Ottawa will make $130,000.00 a year plus what ever their perks are.   Those senators work less than 100 days & get paid that kind of money!  Every senator there must be laughing all the way to the bank!  So much for an elected senate that Harper said he would go for.   Instead he appointed his senators just like other past parties in power have done!   Why should Canadians keep his party in power when Harper keeps breaking his word? 

Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean agreed(I would like to her her reason for that!)  to Harper’s request to shut down Parliament until he can present a budget around the end of January.  Really I would of liked to see him get a vote of non-confidence & have another general election!  However as much as I don't really care for the Liberals either they are the only other party to choose from.  In order for the Liberals to be taken seiously they need to put a rush on their leader race & turf Dion asap!  That guy couldn't even get his tape to the netorks on time & the quality of the video speaks for itself.  The media were more focused on lateness & poor quality of the video than the content!  It's understandle why the coalition is not being taken seriously with Dion at the helm!   Apparently the coalition is still willing to over throw Harper even after he presents his budget next month.  Time will tell if he will finally try to get along with the opposition parties or not!  He's acting like someone going for a show down at the O.K. Corral.  Except this time he didn't have the guts to show up!  He told people in a national address earlier in the week he had it delayed until Dec. 8/2008 but of course that was a lie because he had no intentions of facing the music!  It was reported last night by CTV's Lloyd Robertson & Robert Fife that if Harper didn't get his request to  shut down Parliament that he was going to resign as Prime Minister!  Now if that isn't a sookie baby then I don't know what is - pfft!