Interesting piece in Macleans:
Parliament will fight
What’s at stake here is nothing less than our system of government
by Andrew Coyne on Monday, December 21, 2009
Full story: http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/12/21/parliament-will-fight/
We are not yet in a constitutional crisis over the government’s refusal to release the Colvin memos to Parliament, but we probably should be. A secretive and overbearing government has turned an ordinary political dispute into an extraordinary confrontation over the powers and privileges of Parliament. Unless some compromise is found, Parliament will fight, and Parliament will be right.
What began as a manageable controversy over the Harper government’s faltering attempts to deal with a problem it inherited from the Liberals—what to do with the prisoners our forces captured in Afghanistan—has been transformed, via the Conservatives’ reflexive paranoia and insularity, into a full-blown political debacle, complete with martyred whistle-blower, outraged former ambassadors, self-correcting generals, and befuddled ministers. And running throughout, a drumbeat of press reports contradicting virtually every aspect of the government’s story.
2 comments:
Not sure Harper and his CON supporters would be wise to get into a fight with MI. Check out Steve V @ Far & Wide and his YouTube find! I think the Liberal Party has found it's gunslinger...finally.
Well Morton, we can only have a constitutional crisis if the Liberals actually step up to the plate and do something. However, everything, and I mean everything, in our recent history suggests that the Liberals will once again make a lot of bluster and then quietly slink away into a corner and give the Cons free reign to do whatever they want.
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