The NDP
say that they’re not going to suffer from leadership infighting the way the Liberals
did. Really! Why does this sound like famous last words?
Speaking
of the Liberals, a number of party veterans sound like they’re to vie for the party president – some older faces like Sheila Copps, as well as a few recently
defeated MPs like Siobhan Coady, Mark Holland and Alexandra Mendes. Depending
on whom they choose, it could play a big party in the way the party rebuilds itself
from a structural perspective.
With
the government now crowing about a fourth “suspected war criminal” now caught
because of their inform-on-your-neighbours programme, more questions are being
raised. Seems some of these alleged suspects may not even be charged for alleged
“war crimes,” and some may not even face prosecution when we deport them. So
why the moral panic? Oh, right – making them look tough-on-crime. And their way
of claiming to respect due process by using immigration process rather than a
criminal one smacks of finding loopholes for the sake of good PR.
Scott
Brison and Ralph Goodale want the Commons finance committee to hold a special
meeting this summer to summon Jim Flaherty so that they can discuss contingency
plans in the event the US defaults on its debt obligations as they are now in
danger of doing.
And a Halifax Coast Guard employee has been removed from his duties after he posted a
YouTube video denouncing the government’s closure of distress centres in favour
of a centralised “call centre.” Meanwhile, a federal scientists who may have
unlocked reasons for declining salmon stocks has been muzzled – by the federal
government. Remember when people said that the obsessive message control might
end under a majority? How’s that working out for you?
