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    • Parliamentary supremacy

    ‘Fundamental constitutional imperatives’, the man says

    On the Wheat Board, who should prevail in the contest between the Parliament of 1998 and the Parliament of 2011?

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    “The committee will have access to all documents.” So will it?

    Cancel my initial reaction. I think the NDP and this Globe story have it wrong, too. The deal struck yesterday between the government and the Opposition — two of the three opposition parties, that is — providing for disclosure to members of Parliament of previously secret documents related to the transfer of Afghan detainees, strikes me, on closer reading, as acceptable, and in keeping with the Speaker’s ruling on the matter.