** Old draft from April 12, 2011 that I’m publishing now, untouched, a bit like a time capsule from Election 41**
#wtf LPC proposed AG table report if #hoc dissolved. BQ supported LPC. CPC opposed + NDP weirdly supported CPC: http://goo.gl/4eA26 #elxn41
Mr. Jean-Claude D’Amours:
Mr. Chairman, my question is clear.
Furthermore, it is not up to us, as members sitting around this table, to decide if the motion is in order. We can provide our opinion as to whether or not we think that it falls within the committee’s order of business. You are the chair, we have a clerk, and we have documentation containing the information needed to verify if the question is in order or not. I believe that that fact has been well established.
I do not understand why certain members of Parliament refuse the principle of transparency. We talk about accountability, and I believe that we are in fact here faced with a refusal of transparency. One must also ask why certain members are trying to prevent things from moving forward. What are they afraid of?
We have senior officials in the House, independent officials who do their job. We ask them to ensure that all of the work done within government follows the rules. The only thing I am asking is that there be transparency, that we ensure that any reports completed by the Auditor General be presented to the public.
What is the problem with transparency? What is the problem with certain members who do not want the public to know certain things? What are people afraid of? Perhaps the report will be a positive one. Why be fearful of having the Auditor General come with a report and recommendations? Unless someone is trying to hide something.
Those members who refuse the principle of transparency should now think twice about it before making that kind of comment.
Mr. Kramp, we are talking about transparency and
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accountability, it was supposed to be from your government, and you said that it’s crap? I hope that next time you will think about those words before mentioning it.
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Beyond ashamed to say that Kramp is my MP.
Pointless to even waste a brain cell to write to him!
Nuff said.
When the Con committee forces the Elections officer in camera next week, we should ask them how transparent the government is being.
Precisely right. The appearance of the Elections Canada officer before a committee (doubtless in camera) on the same day as the budget is brought down, when the Press Gallery is sequestered, is beyond reprehensible – it verges on a nearly illegal lack of transparency.
It will also work. The MSM will be involved with the new NDP Leader, then involved with the budget, and this little blip will go by the board.
I hope that Mr. Mayrand will get a convenient bout of the flu on March 29th. Failing that, I hope that bloggers like Saskboy will keep this hideous issue front and centre – especially after all the carefully-manipulated distractions have faded.
We need you.