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Turns out the timing of this blogburst was uncanny: just this morning, the Canadian Bar Association issued a statement "urging the federal government to reinstate the court challenges program and restore its budget." Gee, they would, wouldn't they? They enjoy getting paid for these stunt court cases, right?

And to think we picked "Tuesday" cuz it sounded good...

It is imperative that you contact your MPs and the Prime Minister today. See what we're up against? But we have our own kind of power. Let's use it. This is what democracy looks like.

* Joanne is keeping track of the bloggers posting about the Court Challenges Program today. Why not write a post and add your name to the roll?

* Halls of Macadamia writes:

Now it may just be me, but it just doesn’t seem to make sense to obscenely overpay our elected members of Parliament, who take years to propose and pass the laws that keep society from tearing out each other's throats... which then face another level of approbation in the Nursing Home for Political Cronies & Bagmen (aka the Senate), and than hand out money to people who still aren’t happy with the situation, to challenge these very same laws.

If you have a beef with the law of the land and it's important enough to you, by all means raise some money with the help of like-minded individuals and go to court and challenge the law.

Just don't expect me to pay for it.

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It's October. You know what that means: Friday the 13th in heavy rotation. Or maybe you prefer Night of the Living Dead. Or a slew of Hammer horrors starring Christopher Lee as the Count.

It's the season of The Thing That Wouldn't Die.

And this year, the Court Challenges Program is playing the part of Jason...

Last month, the Conservative government announced the end of the infamous Court Challenges Program, through which special interest groups, using our tax dollars, launched stunt lawsuits pushing their agendas. Gay "marriage" was the most notorious result. Knowing they could never get their way via the ballot box, activists used the Court Challenges Program to bypass democracy.

Unelected, unaccountable Supreme Court Justices and publicly funded radicals -- not the most desirable combination...

Not everyone celebrated the demise of the CCP. You didn't think Big Left would go down without a Final Girl fight, did you? The usual suspects set up SaveCourtChallenges.ca, encouraging their comrades to protest the decision by writing their MPs and the PM.

Of course, two can play at that game. Remember how successful last month's anti-SOW blogburst was, the one that happened shortly before the Feds pulled the plug on that program? Well, we can do it again!

Today, all around the Canadian blogosphere, you'll find posts like this one, asking you to write your MPs and the Prime Minister. Tell them how you feel about the Court Challenges Program, and that you want it gone, as promised. This will only take a minute or two, but it will make a big difference.

Then write a post about the Court Challenges Program on your own blog. Ask your friends to do the same.

Villagers: grab your pitchforks and torches! Whatever it takes -- aiming for the head, a stake through the heart -- the Court Challenges Program must stay dead!