David Tilson

An unscripted moment in the House

Vic Toews wonders.

Halloween in the Commons: Time to shame the committee chairs

Noting his pursuit of a federal environmental assessment for a proposed quarry in his riding, the NDP suggests Conservative MP David Tilson should be voting against the budget implementation act.

Whatever his concerns about previous efforts “to force Canadians to divulge detailed personal information under threat of prosecution,” Tony Clement did still, at last report, “strongly encourage” Canadians to participate in the new voluntary survey. Conservative MP David Tilson is not so encouraged.

David Tilson explains why the immigration committee is investigating Ruby Dhalla.

The nannies detail mental torture and physical stress; Dhalla denies it, brags about their basement apartment

The immigration committee calls in the nannies.

The most entertaining parts of Sheeple, Garth Turner’s awkwardly titled account of his most recent time in politics, are almost definitely the previously undisclosed bits of private conversation and internal discussion Turner claims to have been party to. If only because truly candid, available-for-public-consumption comment from a politician is otherwise so rare.

There’s an old idea in football that when one arrives in the end zone, one should eschew the typical dancing and “act like you’ve been there before”—a quote attributed variously to any number of old and grouchy football coaches. The point being that true confidence doesn’t require theatric expression.

If the ears don’t deceive, Conservative David Tilson, in between growling, just quoted one Robin Sears pontificating on Elections Canada’s investigation of Conservative election financing. Now, surely that’s not the same Robin Sears who wrote a piece for The Globe just days after admitting little to no knowledge of the matter.

With just hours to go before the Ethics committee kicks off its eleven-months-in-the-making investigation into the Conservative in and out election spending scheme, it seems like as good a time as any to re-post the official ITQ In and Out FAQ, which was originally published on April 28, 2008.