The unsettled matter of Brent Rathgeber
‘I think that’s a lack of respect for the legislative process’
‘I believe I can account for my actions’
A proposal goes before the ethics committee
The matter of Nigel Wright and Mike Duffy is pursued in the House and Senate
Motion to tabled with ethics committee
Liberal MP Scott Andrews has formally requested that the ethics committee be recalled to hear from Dean Del Mastro.
Pierre-Luc Dusseault, the youngest MP in the history of the House of Commons, is now the youngest MP ever elected chair of a standing committee of the House.
The ethics committee has issued a summons for Dimitri Soudas, the Prime Minister’s director of communications.
On the occasion of Chrétien’s portrait unveiling, Harper uncovers a ‘deep, enduring consensus’
The government’s attempt to improvise a new limit on the Westminster system will have its first test this morning when the Prime Minister’s director of communications is scheduled to testify at the ethics committee. Once again, as in the matter of Parliament’s demand to see documents related to Afghan detainees, there is the small matter of the actual laws of this land.
The government is once more displeased with this democracy it must function within