OttawaThe Commons: Thinking about preparing to get ready to plan to study the F-35Scenes from an emergency meeting of the standing committee on public accounts
OttawaTeam MulcairThe NDP shadow cabinet, as announced this evening by Thomas Mulcair. Tom Mulcair Leader of the Official...
OttawaSpring break is overThe House doesn’t reconvene until Monday, but the public accounts committee will meet this afternoon to, presumably, launch its...
OttawaWhat does ministerial accountability mean anymore?A very relevant discussion from The National last night. Here is the 2011 edition of Accountable Government, a guide for ministers...
Ottawa’That has been the problem since 1982’A footnote to Mr. Mulcair’s official statement on the 30th anniversary of the Charter: Paper Dynamite digs up a speech Mr. Mulcair...
OttawaIdea alertItalian researchers posit that legislatures would be better off if some members were selected at random from the...
OttawaRestoring Parliament’s most important functionJohn McCallum lays out four ideas for fixing the way Parliament reviews and approves the government’s expenditures. This is a...
OttawaWhat they said about the F-35 (II)Two weeks before the Liberals formally called for a reset of the fighter jet procurement process, representatives from Boeing and...
OttawaCalling for a reset on the F-35, circa 2010A year and a half ago, the Liberals used an opposition day to put forward the following motion. That day’s debate on the motion...
OttawaWhat they said about the F-35The Harper government announced its decision to acquire the F-35 in July 2010. The House was on break at the time and did not...