Cracks Appearing in The Prime Minister's Armour

The Government of Canada has been Conservative now for a term and a half. The first term was a minority and the second was a strong majority. This party is made up of three factions and has drawn together many well meaning candidates who ran for election with the high ideal of contributing to Canada. The Prime Minster convinced the elected members that with a minority government they had to be silent, secretive and scripted and the back trenchers had to toe the line and act as trained seals.This mode was to make sure that the party wold win a majority and it did work.

After the second election with a strong majority the members thought that the party would take away all those restrictive, secretive and scripted rules that hog tied them for so long. The Prime Minister and a handful of cabinet ministers continued  to act as of before and never answered a question in the House unless it was approved by the PM and was read off a scripted message.

Without change the members were beginning to feel the pressure from their constituents about their lack of participation in the business of the country. Rumblings were heard in the caucus meetings but still the PM kept them in the dark and suppressed the back trenchers.The Senate scandal, the defections and the opposition questions were being felt by the PM and the party.

For a party which was elected partly because of the Liberal scandals promised a new day. Openness, transparency and honesty were their bylines but unfortunately they became what they apposed before they had power.The summer recess is about to begin and the PM will have some time to patch up the mess he created but the people in his party and the many Canadians who follow politics will not forget.

The PM and the Conservatives will have to cleanup their act or clear out of power.