Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Quorum games

Conservative MPs boycotted a meeting of the House of Commons special committee studying the Afghan detainees affair. That would have been a trivial passive/aggressive act except that by so doing they denied the committee quorum.

So nothing could be done except informally meet and discuss -- no motions could be considered.

Apparently the boycott was a surprise move by the Conservatives.

Well, we'll see what happens after Christmas when the documents ordered produced aren't.

It almost makes politics sounds like a game rather than statescraft ... .
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31 comments:

Loraine Lamontagne said...

Without a quorum can the committee hear witnesses?

CanadianSense said...

The Coalition is free to meet and talk about the shoe incident from three years ago.

The Press is free to focus on this as well.

This won't be the first or last overplayed hand by the coalition.

It just exemplifies the lack of vision and planning by the coalition to offer any alternative to the CPC policy.

Have a Merry Christmas and God Bless you. Let's hope 2010 brings you better luck or some adult conversation.

Stephen Downes said...

The problem is that the Tories are slowly being outed on the whole torture issue and everyone knows it.

We are - and have been - supporting a regime that is corrupt through and through and which habitually tortures its own people.

This was par for the course while the cold war was on - and is still business as usual for people still living in a cold war mentality.

I'm still not seeing any leadership from Ignatieff on this though. His handlers are keeping him out of the spotlight at exactly the time he should be on every television screen in the country denouncing Harper`s support for torture.

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