Liberal Government CHANGED THE ORDER PAPER for Parliament

Update Just Added to the post on Kyoto below.


Note: Turn on your TV / radio; big news today -- some time. There was mention of "judges" or "justices" this morning, along with big "scandal". I did not hear this myself; someone else did. Listen.



Ed Broadbent and Peter MacKay were interviewed by Allison Smith on CBC TV this morning. Both were excellent.

Ed Broadbent says Parliament is working as usual; the Liberal government CHANGED THE ORDER PAPER for Parliament to avoid budget discussion and voting on it -- to avoid defeat -- even though the government might NOT have been defeated.

It is Paul Martin who is in crisis because of the questions raised in Question Period, which is only 45 minutes out of Parliament's work day. The rest of the day, Parliament continues with business as usual. There is no crisis in government; the crisis is for Mr. Martin and his Liberals.

Ed Broadbent castigated all the mainstream media for reporting that there is a crisis in Parliament. He says Martin is going to try to suggest that the Opposition is stifling discussion on the budget; however, the Liberal government reversed the order of business so that, instead of talking about and staying on the budget, as they could have, they placed same sex marriage on the order paper. It is the Liberal government which has done this because of the questions raised by the Liberal scandal.

Do not miss Let it Bleed:

"Canada's National Newspaper" [sic] and comments

I almost never purchase print editions of the Globe and Mail, mostly because, to the extent possible, I don't want a single shaving off a penny going from my pocket to the pockets of people like Rick Salutin and Heather Mallick (so, out of spite, really). Yesterday, however, in what can only be described as a moment of weakness, I picked up a copy... and I was reminded of what a terrible, terrible paper it truly is.

Let us refresh ourselves as to where we stood on Tuesday morning in this fair land. The previous day, a laughably hyper-partisan Liberal had testified, under oath, before the Gomery Commission*, that the current Prime Minister had engaged in, in the best possible light, improper tampering with allocation of government contracts. To reiterate, a Liberal, under oath, accused the sitting Prime Minister (i.e., the leader of his own party), of improper conduct in the midst of the biggest corruption scandal in Canadian history. That same day (i.e., Monday), the minority Liberal government gamed the rules in Parliament to prevent the opposition parties (i.e., the parties who have more votes than the government) from having their previous allotted "opposition days", in a desperate attempt to stave off defeat; Chantal Hebert, probably Canada's shrewdest political commentator, called this gambit "political suicide". [Check Let it Bleed for the "political suicide link". . . . ]

And one comment:

J.C.'s rep may be "thoroughly ruined"? - are you sure you weren't reading the comic strip? - does the G&M have a comic strip? - well I guess they do now.

A must read and note links, such as Quotulatiousness.