OttawaRights and Democracy: Rest in peace, Rémy BeauregardEight months ago I began calling for the public release of the Deloitte audit of Rights and Democracy . That was about five weeks...
OttawaRights and Democracy: Scooped!Daniel Leblanc at the Globe and Mail has posted the entire Deloitte audit of Rights and Democracy on the newspaper’s website, "in...
OttawaRights and Democracy: Tickety-boo, Ladies and Gents! Tickety Freaking Boo!From a news release , Oct. 18, 2010 [emphasis]: I...
OttawaRights and Democracy: an odd cameo appearanceRemember the great old days when the entire cast of Homicide: Life on the Streets would suddenly appear, in character, in an...
OttawaRights and Democracy: We have a dateThe Commons Foreign Affairs Committee met in camera yesterday, and when the members emerged, this appeared in the minutes : That...
OttawaRights and Democracy: Well thank goodness we have a take-charge ministerThe very last exchange in Tuesday’s Question Period. There are a lot of ways to read Minister Cannon’s remarks (and therefore a...
OttawaRights and Democracy: So everyone agrees! And there’s no problem! Right?Over at the CBC, their Kady O’Malley points out that Parliamentary privilege being what it is — powerful — "none" of the...
OttawaRights and Democracy: The twilight struggle of transparency and accountabilityOn Nov. 4 I wrote to Stéphane Bourgon, the new communications director for Rights and Democracy, quoting his own words back to...
Ottawa“Democracy demands accountability and rights require responsibility”WELLS: Very well. Let them account, if their word means anything at all.
OttawaInconsistency, like Canada’s government, knows no bordersTwo developments that make a mockery of the Harper government’s hotly-defended positions on two emotional debates this year: •...