I’m Mad as Hell!!! Not surprisingly, Warren is all over this under-reported story. It appears that the public accounts committee is going to start digging around in PM2’s private little government contract machine, Earnscliffe. Now, I’m sure that the Department of Finance would never in a million years have dreamed about giving a special contract […]

Another Episode of Star Wars There’s a good discussion going on in the comments section on BMD so I thought I’d elaborate a bit more on the topic. Paul Wells got a great cross-section of comments on the topic last month – feel free to check them out here. This is an issue I can […]

Star Wars: A New Hope According to Question Period today, it looks like the Liberals will back out of missile defense. This will mark a sharp contrast (notice the avoidance of the term flip-flop) to Martin’s position during the leadership race when Sheila Copps shouted about missile defense and Paul said we “had to be […]

Dithers! Release the Hounds! Often enough, it’s not policy decisions or broken promises that destroy politicians. It’s stupid little things like dropped footballs and purple dinosaurs. Perception is everything. And this, is not good.

Skating Off Topic I generally like to stick to politics on this blog because, as Stephen Harper says, it’s a slippery slope. One day I talk about music, the next day sports, the next day you’re getting weather reports (5 bellow and snowy) and men are marrying their toasters. But, I’ll quickly mention in passing […]

Drinking Game Paul Wells speculated about Paul Martin’s speech on Same Sex Marriage here. The gist of Wells’ question: The question at hand isn’t “How do you like that Charter, eh?” It’s: “Is it right and proper that Parliament endorse equal marriage rights for gays and lesbians?” The elementary test for a prime minister who […]

Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia Courtesy of Lysiane Gagnon , we get some revisionist history in yesterday’s Globe: “In the years after the referendum, the sovereigntist forces were in disarray, and then Quebec premier Lucien Bouchard had turned his energy toward reducing the province’s deficit. He was actually so lukewarm toward the […]

Poll pourri A few interesting polls have come out over the past few days that deserve attention. First off is bad news for the Liberals from SES: LIB – 38% (-3)CP – 29% (+3)NDP -17% (0)BQ – 11% (0)GP – 5% (-1)*12% were undecided (-2) In short, nothing at all has changed since the last […]

On The Attack Also getting in on the Gomery discussion is Mike Brock, a very deserving winner of the Conservative blog of the year. Brock takes issue with the context argument so I’m going to try and clarify why it was important for Chretien to establish the context behind the program. Basically, the perception in […]

Sponsorship Idol I’ve been getting some interesting feedback on the last few posts about the Gomery Inquiry so I’ll spill a bit more virtual ink on this topic (since I think this story is now going to get very little attention outside of Quebec until the final report is published). First up is TDH who […]