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Dec 12, 2008 Letters
Dear Editor,
Whatever the eventual outcome of the constitutional ‘crisis’ in Canada, I think that the opposition parties – the Liberals and New Democrats – along with the written support of the separatist Bloc Quebecois, should not be allowed to oust the sitting Conservative government led by Prime Minister Mr. Stephen Harper, after the recent elections held eight weeks ago, and with an increased number of votes.
According to Mr. Harper, “The opposition does not have the democratic right to impose a coalition with the separatists they promised voters would never happen.”
It is my view that if they did not contest the elections as a coalition, they should not now be allowed to come together in what appears to be a vindictive move to oust the government.
We know that subsequently, the Conservative Prime Minister approached the Governor-General and obtained a suspension of Parliament until the ending of January next year, by which time they would have presented their Budget, and he has called on the opposition parties to work together with the government in dealing with the global financial and economic problems as they affect Canada.
I well remember, and so will others, that after the 1964 elections in then British Guiana, the People’s Progressive Party, under the imposed new electoral system of proportional representation, received an increased number of votes over the 1961 elections, followed by the People’s National Congress and the United Force.
The British Governor, instead of asking Dr. Cheddi Jagan and the PPP to form the government, in keeping with the constitution and established Parliamentary systems in the UK and other democracies, called on Forbes Burnham and the PNC to form the government, with the promised support of the United Force.
Thus, a “fiddled constitutional arrangement” was concocted, and the United Force formally joined with the PNC, two weeks later, to form a coalition government with the sole intention of ousting the PPP government.
As Dr. Jagan and the PPP supporters claimed they were “cheated but not defeated,” and “time and history are on our side,” the PPP returned to office in 1992, with a Civic component, after internationally and locally verified free and fair elections.
Dr. Jagan was quite correct in his views and arguments that the PPP, as the sitting government, should have been called upon, by the governor, to form the new government in 1964, instead of arranging a shotgun marriage between the PNC and the UF, which in fact did not even last until the following elections in 1968.
John Da Silva
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