OttawaThe Commons: Thomas Mulcair and Stephen Harper play charadesThe Scene. What does it mean to act? What is change? What does one do when one takes something and makes it somehow smaller? How...
OttawaWhat does Parliament know about what the government is doing? And what does the government know about what the government is doing?Jason Fekete reviews the auditor general’s findings . Colin Horgan places this in the context of the Harper government’s standoff...
OttawaIt’s the opposition’s fault that these omnibus bills exist, apparentlyOn CBC radio’s The House this weekend, Evan Solomon interviewed Jim Flaherty. During that interview, Solomon raised Stephen...
OttawaOff to court after all?While it seemed a week ago that government departments were prepared to cooperate with the Parliamentary Budget Officer, it now...
OttawaGreat work, but never mindIn June, Tony Clement commended the government operations committee on its study of estimates reform. This week, Tony Clement...
OttawaPeter Goldring Maverick WatchThe Independent Conservative MP disagrees with changes to the MP pension plan.
OttawaNavigating the budget’s watersDuring QP this morning, NDP House leader Nathan Cullen declared that changes to the Navigable Waters Protection Act were not in...
OttawaIt turns out that omnibus budget bills can be splitThe Conservatives and the opposition parties unanimously agreed this morning to split MP pension reforms from the omnibus budget...
OttawaCounting pagesDuring QP yesterday, Jim Flaherty ventured the following. The budget bill tabled today measures something like 450 pages...
OttawaTake the Jim Flaherty Budget ChallengeBruce Cheadle finds a few discrepancies between the spring budget and the latest budget implementation bill . Postmedia and the...