The worst thing about the reporting of Harper’s prorogation is the fact that they’re calling it a “suspension.” As if they’re going to get back after the break and pick up their discarded text-books and get back to work.

It’s more like an expulsion.

Seriously, if you kid gets suspended from school she at least gets to come back in a few days and catch up on missing homework. If she’s expelled, she has to go to a new school, and start her courses all over again. That is what’s happening here – a new session will begin, all the bills will die, and the committees can’t sit (and produce untimely and damning reports of the Harper government) in the interim.

Harper has expelled the MPs from the house, told them their work isn’t needed, and told them to start over again in a few months, but he hasn’t just given them a long vacation – no, they have to redo their courses at a whole other school come the Spring.

And yet they’re all getting extra credit for attending The Cool Sporting Event (in a purely ceremonial fashion, with lots of photo ops, natch.) Shows where our priorities really lie.