Charles Tupper

In the beginning, there was disagreement.

Let’s begin our Liberal convention coverage with this bit from the Globe’s preview.

The government’s attempt to improvise a new limit on the Westminster system will have its first test this morning when the Prime Minister’s director of communications is scheduled to testify at the ethics committee. Once again, as in the matter of Parliament’s demand to see documents related to Afghan detainees, there is the small matter of the actual laws of this land.

Andrew Steele considers Michael Ignatieff and elitism.

There might be plenty of reasons to believe Dominic LeBlanc is the right man to lead the Liberal party. His age, though, is not one of those reasons.