Wednesday, October 7, 2009 05:55 PM
Leader of the Opposition?
Jane Taber
It was all about tax hikes and cover-ups today in the Question Period - a depressing mix of issues that makes one wonder how Parliament will actually continue to work into the new year.
Oh, and for a brief shining moment Jack Layton was the Leader of the Official Opposition.
While the Liberals took on the Conservatives for increasing employment-insurance premiums and the jobs killed as a result, Mr. Layton accused the government of trying to shut down the Military Police Complaints Commission hearings into the alleged torture of Afghan prisoners.
“The government is not serious about allowing this inquiry to continue,” the NDP Leader charged, saying the evidence of two witnesses was being suppressed. “What does the government know about what was going on in the Afghan prisons that it doesn’t want to be presented to the commission?”
Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the government is co-operating and respecting the investigative process.
The inquiry is looking at what military police in Kandahar knew about the possible abuse of prisoners who had been handed over by Canadian soldiers to Afghanistan’s notorious intelligence service. Public hearings were adjourned today to give lawyers a chance to figure out the precise scope of the probe.
Mr. Layton pressed on, raising testimony provided by Richard Colvin, a former diplomat who worked at Canada's provincial reconstruction base in Kandahar in 2006, whose evidence the NDP Leader accused the government of "trying to suppress."
1 comment:
if this author had any brains (or was a little bit honest), he'd know that the liberals, are doing what any opposition party has done for decades.
The only thing that has changed, is that we are in a minority situation.
Ask Harper, he did the same things while in opposition. Uncannily, the very same things!
Amazing when you have a least some partial use of your long term memory facilities.
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