What About Harper's Idea to Change the Constitution?

A lot of attention is played towards the comments or utterances of the Prime Minister on his sudden change of mind to do with the Not-Withstanding Clause in last nights debate.

I understand the attention it is being paid here in Calgary, because he is a Liberal, and he is from Ottawa, and can do no right.

Shouldn't the complete ignorance being paid to the statement made by Stephen Harper about his wanting to enshrine or add Property Rights in to the constitution, be of concern? Shouldn't we also be looking at the trigger to Martin's foolish idea as well?

Stephen Harper said, 'I think the Charter should be strengthened. I think there should be property rights protection in our Charter.'

This issue is something Harper does not talk about and probably won't in public. If you consider that the oil and gas sector in Alberta will fight the change, and the provincial government's methods of allowing the oil and gas company to ignore the plight of some of the farmer and the land they destroy, it makes as little sense as Martin's new idea for our constitution.

The other question is, what other parts of the Consitution and Bill of Rights does Harper want to change? He cannot be ignorant of the fact that once you open the Constitution to this issue, you open it to all issues.


Shouldn't this idea of putting something into the consitution that was fought against vigerously by both Premier Lougheed and as compatriot, the Premier of Ontario at the time, receive at least the same amount of public debate and attention?

From the transcription of the debates at www.globenandmail.com

Dan Cook of the Globe and Mail does not see fit to include it in his infantile reporting of the debates either.

Mary Janigan, of the Globe's editorial boards talks about it on the Globe's site at 8:24 p.m. 'And harper wants to put back property rights. Which was another part of the deal made in late fall of 1981. We could spend the next five years talking constitution while the world passes us by.' Followed by this comment by Marcus Gee, 8:25 p.m., 'Just what we need: Another constitutional debate! Canadians would rather eat glass.'

Norm Greenfield
Calgary, Alberta
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