It'd only be better if I were still in Nova Scotia

After reading the news this week and last I'd become convinced the federal government had been a little too influenced by the latest instalment of Pirates of the Carribean. I imagined the prime minister lining up his MPs along the deck, walking down the line and saying "ye, who votes his conscience will have safe passage," with a sword concealed behind his back. But when a Nova Scotia MP stepped forward against the pillaging of the province, the prime minister immediately drew his sword and made him walk the plank. Then, after sending his crew back to their ships, Harper once again set sail for a longer term. Unfortunately, there was a murmur of a mutiny on the S.S. Atlantic, as other MPs began to grumble about the watery end of their counterpart. Captain Mackay, the prime minister's Number 2 guy and closest thing the Tories have to a Trudeau, was being poked with daggers over the broken promise and why he didn't jaunt off the boat aswell. Harper, despite seeing his likely successor holed up in the crow's nest, turned around to the Atlantic and thumbed his nose. But alas, in a last minute effort, and while surrounded with the safety of the French envoys, Harper slowed his ship to sail beside the Atlantic, clasped his hands together and nodded his head, and avoided a mutiny. Now, the dispute has gone to the Senate, so ending an entertaining week in parliament.