g8 summit
A very ‘meh’ G8 for Canada
No trade agreement—and not much else either
The r-word
The NDP has turned up more documents concerning Tony Clement and the G8 Legacy Fund. Specifically, they seem interested in the following passage from an October 2011 memo prepared for the deputy minister of industry, based on a conversation with a former employee of FedNor.
The Commons: Whatever he meant, Tony Clement stands by what he said
Irrelevance and sloppiness are his best explanations for the contested G8 spending
‘Baseless and outrageous’
After QP this afternoon, Tony Clement stood with the following point of privilege.
Down the paper trail again
The NDP says Tony Clement misled the public accounts committee when he testified three weeks ago. The emails in questions can be viewed here.
The Commons: Tony Clement comes clean
The government knows which gazebos, toilets and bike racks were built with that $45.8 million
Parliament: now literally a joke
Pierre Poilievre, parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Transport, responding this afternoon to the NDP’s Alexander Boulerice, who asked if the government would allow a parliamentary inquiry into the G8 Legacy Fund to proceed.
‘Anything you need’
Peter Kent reiterates to the Star that his conversation with Vern Freedlander wasn’t as Mr. Freedlander reported it. Whatever the case, Mr. Freedlander wasn’t registered as a lobbyist.
The Commons: Over and over again
Each and every day, someone asks Tony Clement a question he has no intention of answering
‘He doesn’t know what he’s talking about’
Tony Clement repudiates his friend’s understanding of how government works.
This week in mocking Parliament
The NDP persisted again yesterday in asking questions about the G8 Legacy Fund. With Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird away from the House, the government side, again, sent up Deepak Obhrai to respond.
You’ve got a friend in government
The Star obtains new emails related to the goings on in Huntsville.