By Fiona McMurran
Niagara area residents joined more than 10,000 Canadians in Ottawa and Toronto along with thousands of others in towns and cities across the country this Jan. 23 to protest Prime Minister’s Stephen Harper’s Conservative government’s continued proroguing of parliament.
Those who gathered in front of the constituency office of Conservative MP Rick Dykstra in St. Catharines – more than 50 in all – and sites across Canada demanded that the proroguing of parliament be ended and that our MPs get back to work.
Sporting signs reading; “Wanted – Stephen Harper, For Crimes Against Democracy,” “Don’t Run Away From Democracy” and “Honk For Democracy,” those who rallied in St. Catharines were angered by Dykstra’s recent comment that his constituents and those of other MPs across the country don’t care about the fact that the government he’s a member of has prorogued the business of parliament until the first week of March. Continue reading
