"Prorogation is about the Senate not detaines or other minor details."

To reset the Senate committees requires only a single day of "proroguement", not 5 weeks. So it obviously has to do with more than resetting those committees because it is for much longer than is needed to do so.

"It shouldn’t have to take a vote of non-confidence to get the government to obey basic norms of accountability."

Non-confidence motions were turned into a game when Harper made all his legislation a confidence 'measure' in 2007 and 2008.

Votes stopped being about the merits of the legislation and became a political trick to embarrass the Liberals.

Even non-confidence votes themselves have become meaningless.

And the media praised this as great political strategy by Harper while using it themselves to beat up on the Liberals.

"Coming out of the worst recession since the Great Depression in the best position of the G8 , in 9 months,
is not a goal accomplishment? "

France, Germany and Japan, all members of the G8 came out of the recession in the spring. Canada limped out out of the recession this Sept. with 0.1% GDP growth. Even the US had better growth then Canada in the that third quarter. We are no where near the "best position of the G8".

"and it was a CONSERVATIVE PM who, noting that we've been there longer than WWII lasted, decided to END THE AFGHANISTAN MISSION. "

The mission was to have ended 10 months ago in Feb 2009. It was this Conservative govt that decided not to end the mission but tried to make it an open ended commitment. It was only by the Liberals working out a compromise that we have an end date for this mission although at a later date than the original end date the Liberals have - again that was Feb. 2009.