Scott's DiaTribes (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
It’s pretty much a given that the Conservative government will ignore the non-binding motion passed in the House of Commons yesterday that called on the government to call a public inquiry into the Afghan detainees issue. Jack Layton of the NDP warns that ignoring this action would be “in contempt of Parliament“. That’s not stopped [...]
Devin Johnston (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Yesterday, the opposition parties in the House of Commons passed a motion to call a public inquiry into the transfer of Afghan detainees by Canadian forces. According to the Toronto Sun , "the majority motion will most likely be ignored by the governing Conservatives." While most Canadians have generally come to expect this type of political arrogance from Stephen Harper, there was something...
The Galloping Beaver (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
To:Prime Minister Stephen Harper pm@pm.gc.ca CC:NDP Leader Jack Layton Layton.J@parl.gc.ca , Liberal Party Leader Michael Ignatieff Ignatieff.M@parl.gc.ca Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe DucepG@parl.gc.ca . Subject: I Want a Torture Inquiry . Dear Prime Minister Harper, . I am very concerned by the recent testimony of senior intelligence officer Richard Colvin. . According to Mr. Colvin, who served...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
You might need to read this NDP press release more than once to get over the initial shock of the headline. What? Jack Layton demanding businesses be allowed to keep their profits? But, but ... how do you tax the rich and defeat corporate greed if you're going to go around letting businesses keep their profits? It appears the NDP leader is caught in a bit of a conundrum. His ongoing crusade against...
CalgaryGrit (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
After a look at Harper and Ignatieff's Christmas letters, we move on today to Jack Layton's. Dear working families, It’s been a great year for progressives across North America, with Barack Obama entering the White House, and the NDP winning the New Westminster-Coquitlam by election. All together now – Yes We Can! Yes We Can ! The year started with Michael Ignatieff showing a lack of conviction...
CalgaryGrit (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Yesterday I posted an exclusive copy of Stephen Harper's Christmas letter . Today, a draft of Michael Ignatieff's, obtained from my OLO contacts. I publish it here so that those of you not on Michael's Christmas card list can get a look. Salutations my Canadian friends, Isaiah Berlin once proclaimed “ philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions ” – over the past...
liberal catnip (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
From Monday's Question Period : Hon. Jack Layton (Toronto—Danforth, NDP): Mr. Speaker, when it comes to this whole question of torture, unlike other party leaders , we are not going to stand for denying of the evidence. We are not going to cover up the truth. We are not going to write books justifying torture in any way, shape or form. Nothing can justify torture and nothing can justify the full-scale...
They Call Me "Mr. Sinister" (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Robert Silver in the Globe : What makes this fact interesting (at least to me) is that while the Liberals are at an all time low in popular support in the polls (and no - none of this should be taken as a statement that all is good in Liberal poll land), the NDP have really not been the beneficiaries at all of our swoon. In fact, 15.9 per cent would be Jack Layton's second worst result as leader. Even...
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Jack Layton’s third question this afternoon. Mr. Speaker, when it comes to this whole question of torture, unlike other party leaders, we are not going to stand for denying of the evidence, we are not going to cover up the truth, and we are not going to write books justifying torture in any way, shape or [...]
Freddie P (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Stephane Dion must be one proud fella today. His wife, who obviously wears the pants in the house lost her mind on Friday and posted a facebook attack on Michael Ignatieff. Granted, Ignatieff is a class "A" stooge in his own right, but Dion's wife, who goes by the name Janine Krieber wrote a scathing piece on Ignatieff's underhanded means of grabbing control of the party, she criticized...
GayandRight (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Could you imagine Churchill saying the Nazis should have some cabinet members'?? Britain's foreign secretary has suggested that senior Taliban figures be given positions in the Afghan government to bring an end to the violence in the country. At a meeting of Nato's parliamentary assembly in Edinburgh, Scotland on Tuesday, David Miliband said that history suggested many Taliban members could be persuaded...
Dr Roy's Thoughts (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Kelly McParland thinks so. I'm not completely sure, but things look pretty bad for iffy. The media now calls him iffy. The problem is that the grits think that it is just a leadership problem. Thankfully for us, they won't believe it is a much deeper problem. That Ignatieff should be verging on such status is surprising, considering his background and evident talent. Ten months ago it appeared he would...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Michael Ignatieff gets advice from Frank McKenna and Jack Layton has a new spring in his step
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The good news for Michael Ignatieff in a new Nanos Research poll is that he is still more popular than was his predecessor, Stéphane Dion, after he lost the last general election just over a year ago. The bad news is that another month like the one just passed and the Liberal leader will be in Dion territory — that is, where only one in 10 Canadians think you would make the best Prime...
Section 15 (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
From Jane Taber's third point : EKOS’s Frank Graves has "...also looked at the political horserace, finding that the Liberals are “stuck in amber” along with the Conservatives. For the second week, the numbers show that we are exactly where we were on election day 2008 - 36.6 per cent for the Conservatives, 26.6 per cent for the Liberals, 16.8 per cent for the NDP, 11.2 per cent...
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