Christopher White, founder of that Facebook group, talks to the Tyee.
Christopher White, founder of that Facebook group, talks to the Tyee.
Q. How did this all begin?
“It was the day I got back to Edmonton from the Christmas holiday. I slept in a bit. I was still in my pajamas, reading the news online, when I learned that Stephen Harper had asked for another prorogation.
“My first reaction was outrage. Here it was, happening again. It was so irresponsible, so undemocratic. And the worst part was, I could already feel the apathy starting to creep in.
“I looked at a couple other articles, and found a blog post Andrew Coyne had written on Maclean’s. He brought up this idea of the Long Parliament of 1640 in England, when the Parliamentarians defied the King and kept the Parliament going when he was out of the country.
“And I started wondering, ‘What if our Parliamentarians sat anyway?’ It just seemed like a really great idea.”