Howdja Like The Tie…I’ll Be Here All This Week…Thank you…You’ve Been Great…
…Have You Ever Heard The One About The Commons Committee…
No wonder it’s all gone goofy on Parliament Hill. It’s the Prime Minister’s brilliant plan:
The handbook, obtained by National Post columnist Don Martin, reportedly advises chairs on how to promote the government’s agenda, select witnesses friendly to the Conservative party and coach them to give favourable testimony. It also reportedly instructs them on how to filibuster and otherwise disrupt committee proceedings and, if all else fails, how to shut committees down entirely.
Please note: leaked by the National Post, the closest thing to a conservative paper outside of Alberta. Please also note folks like poster boy Andrew Coyne and independent non-posterly yet more right than me guy Jay Currie and a whack of others natural ethical conservatives of many stripes are not surprised but are appalled. The guys are nuts…yet they are also reinventing the concept of two-bit.
To review: this party came out of the Reform movement to improve democracy in Canada.