Aurel Braun

The group is urging the government to consider the MEK as a potential replacement government for Iran

Hunches and goose chases at Rights and Democracy have cost taxpayers $1 million

The Commons Foreign Affairs Committee met in camera yesterday, and when the members emerged, this appeared in the minutes:

Over at the CBC, our their Kady O’Malley points out that Parliamentary privilege being what it is — powerful — “none” of the exemptions claimed by the industrious board of Rights and Democracy “are remotely relevant” to the Foreign Affairs Committee’s request for the Deloitte forensic audit.

On Nov. 4 I wrote to Stéphane Bourgon, the new communications director for Rights and Democracy, quoting his own words back to him. “In Le Devoir on Oct. 23,” I wrote, “you are quoted as saying, in regard to the Deloitte forensic audit of R&D: ‘The will of our president is to make the document public as rapidly as possible. As soon as the Foreign Affairs committee asks for it, we will send it to them.’” [I’ve since added the emphasis, for reasons that will soon become apparent.]

WELLS: Very well. Let them account, if their word means anything at all.

PAUL WELLS checks in on the audit situation

Via ex-colleague Kady, the latest, but not the last, in the new Rights and Democracy regime’s long-running attempt to redefine modern political satire.

Iggy: “The government has made a total mess of a great institution, Rights & Democracy”

A rebuttal to Sen. Linda Frum’s guest column

Sen. Linda Frum on the controversy; Paul Wells responds

Yesterday’s display of bulbous rubber noses and floppy shoes from the seven clowns running Rights and Democracy is wearyingly familiar in every particular.