committee lookahead thingy

Sorry, y’all, for going AWOL yesterday – what with the Khadr hearing, and the Joe Clark hanging, and the shrapnel flying everywhere after the Bernier implosion, by the time I got around to checking the schedule, most of the meetings had already wrapped up.

The daily roundup will be posted later today, with abject apologies for tardiness. I’ll be liveblogging today’s hearing on the Omar Khadr case, of course – and I know it’s going to be hard to compete with the Bernierpocalypse, but I suspect it’s going to be a good one. For a preview of what to expect, here’s the relevant bit from yesterday’s post:

I know, I know – Colleague Wells has already liveblogged it, but just to give you a sense of our cuddly, forgiving Prime Minister:

Fresh from the Victoria break — or Honouring Our Monarch week, if you follow the regular Thursday now-I’m-sure-he’s-doing-it-at-least-partly-to-drive-me-crazy theme-ifying by Peter Van Loan — the kids — AKA our esteemed elected representatives – are back in Ottawa, the House is back in session and committees are back in business.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

First and foremost – and as previously announced with what some might see as unhealthy glee earlier this week – ITQ would like to extend a very special welcome back to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, back by popular four-members-of-the-opposition demand this afternoon, after a three-week hiatus. We can only cross our fingers that it won’t end up being a re-run – literally, in the case of chairman Art Hanger – and that the motion to investigate the Cadman Affair will finally be put to democratic vote; there is, alas, no guarantee that this will happen, since the government members may decide to spend the two hours of allotted time filiranting about the tyranny of the majority, which will leave the committee pretty much exactly where it is right now: smack in the middle of a Tarantino-style standoff between the Conservatives and everyone else.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008