Comments on: In light of CBC report, demand full document release now.

By: Jim Vincent

Jim Vincent — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:35:37 +0000

@Jon Pertwee, I didn't know criticizing the Liberals constituted a membership in the Conservative party. Considering I'd never vote Tory, and never have, you really make a complete ass of yourself.

By: Jon Pertwee

Jon Pertwee — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:53:23 +0000

@Jim Vincent, expect the Liberals to do what your Conbuddies can't "let principle trump party". Good to see the double standard is alive and well in Conbot world.

By: Anon ABC

Anon ABC — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:47:34 +0000

The opposition parties, in deciding whether to accept this latest ploy to defer to the retired Judge, should remember what Harper sang recently (i.e. that he gets by with a little help from his friends, remember?). LOL. If they allow Harper to further delay and obstruct, after he had already suspended Parliament completely, they would have to accept the responsibility of the start of a breakdown in our Parliamentary form of govt.

It is really quite simple. First, as per JB above, this issue is simply bigger than Libs vs Cons. Second, Harper and his Ministers have clearly gone against a Parliamentary order to produce the unredacted documents and have clearly shown no evidence of changing their minds. If the opposition parties cannot convince Canadians to vote for Parliamentary democracy if an election should ensue, then we deserve to live with the consequences of a Harper majority if that is what entails.

The opposition parties must go for the documents or bring on the contempt motion.

By: Anon ABC

Anon ABC — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:35:39 +0000

Yeah, they would probably claim that Harper has shown Canadians how to be nimble and have a balanced diet. lol

By: Ottlib

Ottlib — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:47:32 +0000

It’s all they have left.

By: Jim Vincent

Jim Vincent — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:43:51 +0000

@Lorraine, A moron, no doubt. But let's face it, if evidence comes forward about the Chretien-Martin governments being implicated in the same sort of things, I expect my Liberal pals to let principle trump party. The Liberals, after all, have a lot to answer for regarding Canada's intervention in Afghanistan, whether they were in government or in "opposition".

By: Red Forever

Red Forever — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:07:42 +0000

That’s about right D

Those conservative A-holes are all over the blogasphere today.

They never address the substance of the issue

Just drive by smears

Kinda telling though isn’t it

By: Red Forever

Red Forever — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:58:52 +0000

That is disgusting and vile.

Conservatives really don’t have any standards do they?

You are beneath contempt

By: Red Forever

Red Forever — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:51:17 +0000

You cons just love straw men don’t you?

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:43:31 +0000

As JB says, it doesn’t matter which party was in power at the time. We want to know what happened… period. If Harper is squeaky clean he would have personally delivered unredacted documents months ago, before he ran from parliament. His actions speak volumes. And Lorraine, you might want to drill considerably deeper. Your take is far too lightweight and appears to have PMO fax dust on it.

A fact which has come home with a huge number of Canadian Afghanistan theatre veterans is that “detainee” is a relative term. The Afghan system is so corrupt that those who can afford it are able to bribe their way out the prison gate shortly after handover. That isn’t the peasant farmers. The fact that we are unable to track the location of those we capture and turn over has led to the same bad guys repeating the same activities in the same places which got them captured in the first place.

Don’t think that won’t appear in documents and that such statements will put the Harper “We (heart} the troops” rhetoric under one ugly microscope.

But at least the Navy is getting an executive curl back on their uniforms.