Time for Opposition parties to put Harper out before he destroys Canada

Now that the holidays have come and gone and we’re well and truly into 2009, the next big event in Canadian life is the reopening of parliament in about three weeks time.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s been a busy boy, appointing senators like it's going out of style. Which it will be, if he gets his way.
Since Harper first took his seat in the House of Commons in 1993 he’s often called for senate reform.
In his three years as Prime Minister, Harper made no appointments to the senate until a couple of weeks ago. None.
But last week, he appointed 18 new senators.
Given the current situation in our nation’s capital, such as the fact the elected members of the House of Commons were kicked out and locked out of parliament by Harper in a last-ditch effort to prevent fed-up Opposition parties from voting him out of his job, I’d say 18 new senators all at once seems like a lot.
"Does Mr. Harper think that Canadians aren't going to notice this blatant flip-flop?" NDP MP David Christopherson said about the appointments.
Flip-flop it is no doubt, but it’s a whole lot more than that too.
Harper’s got a whole plan on how to get things done.
His repeated attempt’s for a majority government at the polls have come up empty.
He’ll have to walk on eggshells in the House now that the Opposition parties have shown him they have teeth and are seriously considering having him for breakfast.
His only option for getting the things he wants done - one of which is an elected senate - is to appoint as many pro-conservative senators as he can to the senate. So expect a whole lot more senate appointments this year.
Some of Harper’s senior officials told the Globe and Mail Saturday that the PM is planning to fill Senate seats as they become vacant and won’t stop until next January when his Tories will have the majority in the Senate.
Though he promised voters no senate appointments until the senate is reformed, Harper will fill two more openings in March, adding to the 18 appointments he made last month. The report said Harper plans to stack the senate with 10 more appointments by the end of the year.
Right now there are 105 seats in the Senate: 58 Liberals, 35 Conservatives, three Progressive Conservatives, four independents and one independent New Democrat.
Conservative Senator Marjory LeBreton said if the government fills the seats upon vacancy, by the end of 2009 there’ll be 49 Conservatives and 50 Liberals.
One month later - January, 2010 - the Tories will have 50 Senators and the Liberals will have 49.
Checkmate for Harper, if he gets his way, and it’ll be all over but the crying for Canadian democracy as we know because it’s not enough for Harper to win. He has to destroy his opponents. I don’t think he can help himself.
The federal budget will be tabled January 27.
I hope the Opposition parties haven’t packed away their coalition plans with their Christmas decorations just yet, cause if they don’t vote down this budget, there are probably gonna be a whole lotta bad times to come.
It’s time for the Opposition parties to put Harper outta business once and for all, for the good of the country, before he destroys Canada.