If the Conservatives and Prime Minister Stephen Harper threaten to dissolve Parliament and force an election rather then be forced to turn documents over to Parliament (and having the spectacle of Parliament’s Sergeant-At-Arms seizing the documents/arresting Cabinet Ministers for contempt of Parliament), that’s their prerogative, and their problem. Nowhere in any of the motions of [...]
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Tags: Afghan detainees, Conservative Party, coverup, documents, human rights, international law, torture | Category: Canadian Politics |
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 | Trackback for this entryThe Speaker has been handed 3 separate points of privilege by the 3 opposition parties today, all asking that the Speaker find the Conservative government in contempt of Parliament for their refusal so far to turn over all unredacted documents referring to Afghan detainees and their treatment (as demanded in a Parliament vote before [...] That’s apparently Stephen Harper’s view from his Google Youtube “interview”. Normally, I’d be outraged, and post a long-winded rant about what a misleading and idiotic a statement that is, except Harper and his government (see Peter MacKay) have been saying that schtick for awhile (and a large portion of the Canadian electorate/public aren’t buying [...] Tags: Afghan detainees, Conservative Party, coverup, documents, human rights, Stephen Harper | Category: Canadian Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryThere is one section of the Conservative government that has definitely not gone on vacation during prorogation; the Prime Minister’s Office, known also as the PMO. They’ve sure been a busy bunch lately; when they’re not smearing respected law professors, they’re going after bankers and finance folks who actually know a thing or two about [...] Tags: Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament, CAPP, Conservative Party, smears | Category: Canadian Politics |
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| Trackback for this entrySeriously, I almost get the feeling Conservative MP’s who have been talking to their local media seem to think that no one else but the locals will read the local interview. Witness the latest attempt by a Conservative MP to justify the prorogation of Parliament; Ron Cannan, MP for Kelowna-Lake Country gives it a go [...] Tags: Conservative Party, prorogation, Ron Cannan | Category: Canadian Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryYou forgot to explain to your constituents in your overly demagogic newsletter how you can justify killing over 30+ of your government’s bills – many I might add, that your government slammed the opposition parties and Senate over for not passing as quickly as you thought they should; particularly the “law and order” bills your [...] Tags: Cheryl Gallant, Conservative Party, prorogue | Category: Canadian Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryKady O’Malley of CBC details the EKOS poll that has just come out this AM, which shows a Conservative drop and the Liberals now only trailing the Conseratives by 5 percentage points: Conservatives: 33.1 (-2.8) Regionally, the Liberals have managed to take back the lead in Ontario [...] Tags: BQ, Conservative Party, Ekos, Green Party, Liberal Party, NDP, prorogue, voter intentions | Category: Canadian Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryHarper came out on his CBC interview with Peter Mansbridge tonight claiming that the Canadian public “don’t care” about the issue. Well, Mr Harper, if people don’t care, then there should be no reason for you to not hand over the documents to Parliament and by proxy the Afghanistan Committee – as voted on and [...] Tags: Afghan detainees, Conservative Party, coverup, Stephen Harper, torture | Category: Canadian Politics, International Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryThis is a very curious story over at Macleans on the sequence of events so far. Twenty eight countries have appointed officials to work with Richard Holbrooke on Afghanstan - the U.S. Special Represetative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, who was personally picked by President Obama, and who reports directly to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Six [...] Tags: Afghanistan, Conservative Party, Stephen Harper | Category: Canadian Politics, International Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryEllie Kirzner of NOW Magazine takes apart Jason Kenney and his ally in the Toronto Star Rosie DiManno, and their attacks on KAIROS. I’m going to quote a large excerpt, because it’s a good piece: …So unsettling is the anti-Semitism charge that many are preferring to believe that Kenney really didn’t say what it seems he [...] Tags: Bev Oda, Conservative Party, Jason Kenney, KAIROS Canada | Category: Canadian Politics, International Politics |
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