Always good to see someone not turn out to be a party hack. Especially interesting to see someone representing my old hometown of Truro NS take a stand like this:
Mr. Casey said he and Gerald Keddy, another Nova Scotia Conservative MP, have met repeatedly with Finance Minister Jim Flaherty in an effort to resolve the impasse. They also appealed directly to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty responds to a question during Question Period in the House of Commons in Ottawa Monday. “We have tried to build bridges between the government and provincial governments. We’ve got legal opinions. We have done everything we can do and last week it was obvious to me that we weren’t going to get the Accord restored. I told the Prime Minister I was going to vote against unless it was restored and I did,” said Mr. Casey. “I just think the government of Canada should honour a signed contact and if they don’t, we haven’t got much to work with.”
Hard to argue with that argument. Interesting to see the reference to the legal opinions – who is the “we” he is referring to? The government? A dissenting group?