I don't know how he did it. It must have taken all the strength still left in his dying body.
His muscles are locking up. By now he probably can't smile or even close his eyes. It's getting harder and harder to breathe.
But somehow Mauril Bélanger made it to the House of Commons for what is almost certainly the last time.
To see his bill to make our national anthem gender neutral advance to its final vote.
Just over a month ago the Ambrose Cons ran out the clock in the Commons to try to prevent Liberal MP Mauril Belanger from seeing his dream of making Canada's anthem gender neutral come true.
Even though his time is also running out.
Well believe it or not, those cruel bastards have done it again.
It's been pretty grey and wet where I live. It gets dark before you know it. Soon it will be winter in Harperland. In all its grim horror.
But on the positive side I have a few days off, so I can take a short break from blogging, recharge my batteries, and try to figure out where the hell we're going eh?
Because on the gloomiest days I can't help feeling that progressives might be drifting towards disaster.
