After sifting through the minutes and recorded proceedings of the Ethics Committee’s questioning of Karlheinz Shreiber today, I can only wonder how our elected officials get away with such stunning partisanship and incompetence. A week after they forced Speaker Peter Miliken to use an archaic Speaker’s Warrant to bring the German-Canadian businessman to testify in Ottawa, they have turned their committee into a televised circus and learnt virtually nothing.
The NDP spent the whole committee trying to tie Schreiber to the Liberals. The Liberals used the same tactics to connect Mulroney to Harper. The Conservatives just tried to distance Harper from this whole affair. And the Bloc, once Jean Charest’s name was mentioned, just, well, kinda lost track.
This didn’t need to be the case. They really could have gotten some answers if they had bothered to ask real questions. But I guess that’s just not how it’s done on Parliament Hill.
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