It's no wonder that Michael Ingatieff isn't making traction with voters when he rarely shows up for work. Members of Parliament are elected to represent their consitutents in the House of Commons, and much of their job involves being in the House debating bills on the floor.
Ignatieff has been absent more than any other member of parliament, 135 times! Prime Minister Harper, has been absent only half that amount, and his duties involve international travel to attend summits, conferences, and the like. So what's Iggy doing? Perhaps, spending a little too much time with his aristocratic friends from Harvard. Or, maybe he's enjoying Algonquin Park since it was the only thing he missed when he was living in the US for 25 years.
The Liberal culture of entitlement has been made clear by this G&M report:
An investigation by the Globe and Mail, published Monday, correlated the MPs' absences with votes on bills in the House and found that 17 members, most of them Liberals, have missed at least a quarter of the votes in the past two years.
The difference between the "real world" (i.e. the private sector) and the public sector is made ever so stark when light is shone into the practices of government workers and our "representatives" in parliament who so often take liberties with their privileged positions while reducing our individual liberties and increasing our burdens to support the government through taxes, fees, and mandatory rules.
Ignatieff has been absent more than any other member of parliament, 135 times! Prime Minister Harper, has been absent only half that amount, and his duties involve international travel to attend summits, conferences, and the like. So what's Iggy doing? Perhaps, spending a little too much time with his aristocratic friends from Harvard. Or, maybe he's enjoying Algonquin Park since it was the only thing he missed when he was living in the US for 25 years.
The Liberal culture of entitlement has been made clear by this G&M report:
An investigation by the Globe and Mail, published Monday, correlated the MPs' absences with votes on bills in the House and found that 17 members, most of them Liberals, have missed at least a quarter of the votes in the past two years.
The difference between the "real world" (i.e. the private sector) and the public sector is made ever so stark when light is shone into the practices of government workers and our "representatives" in parliament who so often take liberties with their privileged positions while reducing our individual liberties and increasing our burdens to support the government through taxes, fees, and mandatory rules.
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And this was the guy when PM Harper progued Parlimanet that stood in the halls of Parliament crying he wanted to work! alond with all his Merry Men - and the liberals are the most missing in action than any other party. What a farse.... can you imagine if the tide was turned and it was the Conservatives who missed all those days - the media would bo balastic!
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