The Conservatives’ critics inside the government have a remarkably short shelf life
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Add another to the enemies list (II)
Michael Ignatieff selflessly beseeches the Prime Minister to spare the rest of the population and direct all anger at him.
The watchdogs
The Globe, Canadian Press, Star, and CBC report from the appearances of the former president of the Nuclear Safety Commission, the former chair of the Military Police Complaints Commission and the former chair of the RCMP public complaints commission at a Liberal forum this morning. From the Globe’s account.
Three of a kind
As reported by the CBC’s Alison Crawford, the former chair of the RCMP Public Complaints Commission, the former Military Police Complaints Commissioner and the former head of the Nuclear Safety Commission will speak at a Liberal-organized forum on governance next week.
Less sexier by the day
The CBC’s Leslie MacKinnon files a necessary review of the medical isotope situation.
ITQ True Confessions: Sometimes, democracy makes us nervous.
When I wrote the following, about that infamous – and, as it turns out, spectacularly shortsighted – unanimous parliamentary decision to overrule Linda Keen and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and restart the Chalk River reactor:
The Commons: Those angry days of yore
The Scene. David McGuinty rose first with a reminder of days gone by.
Chalk River redux
Stephen Harper on Linda Keen, Dec. 11, 2007. “What we do know is the continuing actions of the Liberal appointed Nuclear Safety Commission will jeopardize the health and safety and lives of tens of thousands of Canadians. We do not have the authority to act as an executive, but we do have the responsibility to demand that Parliament step in and fix this situation before the health of more people is put in jeopardy.”
The Commons: Smile and shrug
Tony Clement faces off against Michael Ignatieff
And suddenly I was thinking of Linda Keen
In commercial airlines, captains and first officers split the flying duties equally. But historically, crashes have been far more likely to happen when the captain is in the “flying seat.” At first that seems to make no sense, since the captain is almost always the pilot with the most experience. But…planes are safer when the least experienced pilot is flying, because it means the second pilot isn’t going to be afraid to speak up.