Draft motion says Tories in contempt of Parliament

Draft motion says Tories in contempt of Parliament


Opposition MPs on a Commons committee have declared the Harper government in contempt of Parliament in a historic draft motion.


Wow, he sounds like a really nasty guy. What did he do ?


...Insert 4 paragraphs discussing strategy and tactics about politicians maneuvering to back stab each other...


Umm...ok. So what did he do ? Or are you just going to make really nasty accusations and then suddenly move on to something else ?


The opposition motion specifies the government's refusal to produce full cost estimates for its crime legislation and corporate tax cuts, impeding the work of Parliament. The motion is a directive to committee staff, who will produce the formal document Monday.


So ... you don't like their estimate, which is just a guess, you like your own better. Which is still just a guess.


Liberal finance critic Scott Brison said the ministers were misleading the committee.

"He left out many of the costs of these bills," Brison said Thursday, saying the ministers left out of many of costs associated with the crime bills.

The new documents set the price tag at $631 million for 18 crime bills, but the opposition said they weren't buying that figure.


Hey I remember this. You think they're low balling the costs because their crime bills will , you know,keep criminals in jail longer. Which is where the real cost comes from. And you don't like that , you don't think criminals should stay in jail a little longer.


The government said a bill for stiffer penalties for prisoners will cost $2-billion over five years, but Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page said the sentencing will cost more than double that, at $5 billion.


Yep. Stiffer penalties. More time in jail. More cost to the government.

This ... is like an analysis of a biased newspaper supporting a corrupt government. Everything about this news article paints the conservatives as evil doer's , but locking criminals up for longer periods is hardly an evil deed.

It's a sad , sad day when a newspaper becomes a propaganda tool for a political party. Really. CTV should be ashamed of themselves.

And it's a worse day when a political party can't read the prevailing winds. This is a manufactured issue you're squawking about. keeping people in jail longer is evil ? It is becoming increasingly obvious the liberals will tell any lie, make any distortion , in a quest to try and get elected.

They do not proffer any policies of their own , and they crap on other policies that are arguably good policies. And even policies that were their own , if someone else takes it over (the F35's for example) , then they start to crap on it too.

The whole "that guy is crap , we listen to you , but no , we probably woldnt do anythign differently , in fact we have a long history of not doing anything differently " , it's getting tiresome.

CTV is no longer a real news site it seems. Too bad.