Ed Holder

More MPs decline to send out the flyer

The House considers the future of the budget officer

Mitchel Raphael takes in the Speaker’s second annual celebration of the Scottish bard

Peter Goldring thinks the Conservatives were trying to mock him with a members’ statement.

Among the Conservaties who stood in the House this week and criticized the NDP’s stance on cap-and-trade were Kyle Seeback, Peter Van Loan, Gord Brown, Leon Benoit, Shelly Glover, Chris Warkentin, LaVar Payne, Gerry Ritz, Pierre Poilievre, Christian Paradis, Rick Dykstra, Randy Hoback, Pierre Lemieux, Ed Fast, Tony Clement and Andrew Saxton. These individuals—like Phil McColeman, Joe Preston and Ed Holder, who attacked the NDP last week—were all Conservative candidates in 2008 when the Conservative party platform included a commitment to pursue a continental cap-and-trade system.

Aaron Wherry on the first day back

NDP MP Irene Mathyssen responds to the letter three Conservative MPs sent to the London Free Press.

With Thomas Mulcair visiting Brantford, Conservative MP Phil McColeman uses the phrase “carbon tax” three times in the space of a five-sentence quote (and his remarks are reported without being challenged).

Aaron Wherry on who said what on July 1

As part of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee there was a ceremony unveiling a maquette of Elizabeth II riding a horse that will stay on the Hill.

The McGuinty and Harper governments blame each other for the situation at Electro-Motive in London.