• spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I agree that silence is complicity, but that only applies if you know there’s something worth being silent about, no?

    In this case, the PM had no input because the speaker doesn’t have to ask permission to invite people from his constituency. So it falls to the speaker to validate his invitees. As such, PM has no input, but also no more fault than anyone else told to clap for the “Ukrainian hero” in this scenario… Is my understanding

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      1 year ago

      so is the Canadian House and PM office that incompetent that noone knows how WWII went?

      It is a disgrace for the House and the PM ehose office did not care to inform themselves, when clearly doing something with a foreign policy context.

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        That’s not how our parliament works. The amount of people calling for an end to the speaker’s independence is concerning.

        The speaker’s job is to uphold decorum of parliament. This one spectacularly failed to do that, and resigned as he should. That doesn’t mean we should make it a partisan position.

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          I never talked about parisan positions or whatever. I expect both the house and the presidents office to have staff looking into some more details about things and raising the issue with the respective position, if it could be in violation of values of the respective institution or the country in general.

          That does not involve any change of authority and i struggle to imagine that there weren’t staff people raising these issues beforehand. So i think it to be more plausible that their voice was ignored by the speaker and president, or the information was deliberately not passed on to them.

          Either reason, lack of background check, ignorance by the political leaders or holes in the communications chain, speak of general problems in the organization that need to be adressed. These issues are specific to organizations and it doesnt matter whether it is a political party, a governmental institution, private business or NGO.

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            1 year ago

            Canada doesn’t have a president. The Speaker of the House is the top official when it comes to running Parliament. He definitely fucked up, but it was his fuck-up and he resigned because of it. I don’t think it means we have to re-write the rules for how Canada’s Parliament operates. I mean, it’s not like we actually elected a Nazi, unlike some countries.

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                You certainly did unknowingly imply that changes need to be made when you said that the “president’s” staff should be vetting the Speaker’s decisions. However, I understand that you aren’t familiar with how Canada’s Parliament is structured. To be clear, it is not currently the Prime Minister’s prerogative or job to vet those whom the Speaker invites to speak in Parliament.

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          The PMO is ultimately responsible. The Speaker took the brunt, but you can’t have the leader of a foreign nation visit the country and allow this shit to happen. Imagine having President Xi over and inviting a rapist from Nanjing to attend. There’s no way in hell the PMO isn’t responsible for vetting these people.

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            This is a bad take, the PMO didn’t ‘allow’ it to happen because they had no say, no authority, they weren’t even informed because they don’t need to be informed. The speaker has independent authority over guests in the gallery and over who is recognized. It prevents the gallery from becoming a partisan tool, at least it has for our whole history. If you want to argue for change that’s one thing, but don’t assign blame where it doesn’t belong.