Dan McTeague

We resume our weekly, and wholly arbitrary, ranking of the ten most worthy, or at least entertaining, MPs, excluding the Prime Minister, cabinet members and party leaders. A celebration of all that is great and ridiculous about the House of Commons. Last week’s rankings appear in parentheses.

Fictional news broadcasters to which Liberal Dan McTeague has compared Conservative MP Peter Kent over the past week: 2. 

David Akin produces an early contender.

The Star explains how, and why, Liberal Dan “Gas Man” McTeague devotes so much of his time to figuring out how much gas is going to cost tomorrow.

Posted without comment for the moment. Some attempt at analysis to follow after some consideration now offered below.

So apparently Paul Martin was on Question Period yesterday. He said that while he didn’t repatriate Omar Khadr, today’s government should. It’s “easy” to operate with the benefit of hindsight, says the former prime minister, who had considerably more trouble summoning the benefit of foresight while in office.

Not that anyone’s currently around to hold a vote. Nor that there could be a vote—or at least one that could matter. But for those of you keeping score at home, here’s a breakdown of those MPs who’ve spoken publicly about the appointment of Dr. Morgentaler.

On Feb. 26, Dan McTeague asked the government to account for its handling of Brenda Martin, the Canadian citizen still languishing in a Mexican prison. For whatever reason, the Conservatives sent up Helena Guergis, secretary of state for foreign affairs, to handle the query. A couple excerpts from her responses:”… with respect to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and in accordance with international practice, Canada cannot intervene in the justice system of another country.””Mr. Speaker, Canadians are really growing tired of that member’s ambulance-chasing tactics…”