Determined to continue their “tough on
crime” posturing summer tour, Vic Toews and Jason Kenney unveiled 32 new “most
wanted” names and faces, this time people who were convicted of crimes in
Canada and due to be deported when they completed their sentences but who
skipped out on their bail. Toews was so impressed by the last “most wanted”
arrests that he wants to step up his programme of Canadians informing on one
another. Doubleplusgood!
Liberal finance critic Scott Brison has
been soliciting questions from Canadians over the Twitter Machine to ask at the
Finance Committee meeting later this morning. Brison wants some answers about
what Flaherty’s plans are if the US goes into another recession. Peggy Nash is
already talking about more infrastructure spending.
Parliamentary wonk @P41Questions has been taking apart the whole new Shared Services Canada series of announcements, and
has five questions for Rona Ambrose, and another five for Tony Clement after
examining the enabling Orders in Council and finding all of the hidden goodies contained therein.
A month and a half after the back-to-work
legislation passed, the Postal Union is unhappy with the government’s choice of
arbitrator. Looks like some of the concerns that came up in the Senate were
well founded after all.
What’s that? The former head of the
Canadian Taxpayer’s Federation and newly-elected Conservative MP John
Williamson is presiding over spending announcements? The kind of thing he
railed about in his former job? And something that is inappropriate for an MP to
do, considering it’s an MP’s job to act as a watchdog on government spending?
You don’t say! Let me guess – it’s only pork if it’s in someone else’s riding?
Outgoing RCMP Commissioner William Elliott
is headed off for a new job at Interpol, and says he’s learned a lot from his
last job. Like how being an office bully and throwing screaming fits wins him no favours with his staff?
And Stephen Harper added his voice to that
of several other world leaders in calling for the resignation of Syria’s
president.
