The official musings have begun. We can
now count Thomas Mulcair, Robert Chisholm, Françoise Boivin, Peter Julian and Paul Dewar as
“considering” running for the NDP leadership. Pat Martin also says he would run
as a “unity candidate” to keep the possibility of a “formal cooperation” with
the Liberals open. Between that and Liberal Denis Coderre openly musing about the
supposed “merger” – in spite of Bob Rae insisting that the door is neither open
nor closed as “there is no door,” it keeps the fictional merger non-story alive
for one more day.
That non-binding Private Member’s Motion
that Libby Davies put on the Order Paper about removing the residency period
for pensions (along with 70 other non-binding motions that will never, ever,
ever see the light of day)? The NDP publicly disavowed it yesterday and called
its inclusion a “mistake” while Conservatives were issued talking points to say
that it proves the NDP isn’t ready to govern. But considering these non-binding
motions aren’t ever going to see the light of day, ever, could we please tone
down the rhetoric around them (and this goes for all sides, including those who
use them to make symbolic points)?
While Harper is off meeting other leaders
in Paris to discuss the Libya situation, John Baird isn’t ruling out an extension to the Canadian mission to protect civilians there.
Three different watchdog groups want the RCMP
to re-open the investigation into a political staffer interfering in an Access
to Information request.
Two Sudanese refugees in Regina are being
considered “international students,” and are being charged $10,000 each – for
high school. Seriously.
And it’s now been 40 years that
Alberta has been a one-party Tory state. Democracy!
