The other three opposition parties have agreed to fast-track legislation to help “mega-trials” go ahead such as one the Hell’s Angels are currently involved in but Green leader Elizabeth May refuses to allow unanimous consent for it to move through the House quickly:
“Fundamentally changing the Criminal Code to undermine some of what I regard as fundamental principles of justice over centuries would in my view require more hearings”
Is May incompetent, grandstanding or both? (see here)
Since NDP leader Jack Layton is the resident political Ottawa expert on massage “clinics” and degradation of women in the sex industry, here’s a list of issues for the Press Gallery to get Smilin’ Jack’s opinions on:
- Vancouver’s new massage parlour licensing (see here)
- Politicians surviving sex scandals (see here)
- Stopping the exploitation of women through prostitution (see here)
In a laughable comparison of Stephen Harper to Franklin Roosevelt when FDR appointed Joseph P. Kennedy to head the Securities and Exchange Commission and who then famously answered why he named a crook like Kennedy: “[because it] takes one to catch one”, Newman goes over the line equating it to Tony Clement now being President of the Treasury Board.
I’m not defending Clement’s little pork-barrelling game he was caught doing during the G8/20 but to relate it to a guy who made gazillions from insider trading and stock market manipulations is beyond ridiculous. (see here)
