Parliamentary Budget Office: No, Prime Minister, you didn’t create an "independent position".From yesterday’s Question Period: Oh, Prime Minister. Really, this question was a gimme - all you had to do was say...
Afghanistan: Meanwhile in lovely Nova Scotia......Defence ministers from all the countries with soldiers in Regional Command South (including, most notably, Kandahar) are...
The Commons: Seriously, Mr. Flaherty needs your helpThe Scene . The peanut gallery seemed to find the first full day of Canada’s 40th Parliament to be a bit of a bore. Which is to...
"It’s a stunning oversight, if one assumes that Stephen Harper was sincere..."Michael Petrou asks an important question: Wouldn’t the Canadian government want to hear from a cooperative witness to the beating...
Georgia/Russia: On building a strong allianceNicholas Kristof’s column in Thursday’s New York Times contained one major surprise for me: the reference to Nino Burjanadze as a...
Joe Preston will not take your baitVarious questions and answers from Conservative Joe Preston’s scrum after QP today. The topic is expenses incurred by CBC...
Committee business: Eleventy-member committees? Okay, that works too.Okay, so it’s not quite the ITQ proposal which would have bumped opposition-chaired committees up to thirteen members, but...
Bring on that fiscal update!Flaherty to opposition parties: Next Thursday. 4pm. House of Commons. Be there.
A high honourCongratulations to Lisa Raitt, who has been given Seat #43 in the House of Commons, now officially known as the Rona Ambrose...
Oh, and for (not off) the record ...ITQ agrees completely with Colleague Wherry on the utter ridiculousness of PMO’s new system of holding regularly scheduled Secret...