Monday, June 27, 2005

Thoughts on Today's Question Period

It was really nice to see that Harper had some legitimate policy questions for the Prime Minister. Monte Solberg was absolutely ridiculous with his questions. Goodale handled himself well and ended up calling Monte a "juvenile delinquent". I agree! Diane Ablonczy was on top of the immigration story. I completely disagree with her accusation of political interference. She should rather question the ineptitude of some consular officials and question why Volpe isn’t doing anything about it.

The Bloc, questioning about immigration was on the ball. Where were the other parties on this issue? There was a GlobeandMail editorial on it on Saturday regarding the visitor visa given to a pregnant woman in Syria who has been connected to a hard-line general. The plan was to come to Canada and give birth so the child becomes a citizen. This is a terrible abuse of the system and needs to be addressed.

Unfortunately, the NDP was out in left field asking about Belinda’s potential conflicts. Ok, ok, I know about that. How about some substantive policy. Layton’s usually better. Alexa McDonough had a good question about the deep integration report produced by among other John Manley. Check out vivelecanada.com.

Hmmm…nothing on Bernard Shapiro’s ineffectiveness. That's a shame. Check this out.

3 comments:

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sinead said...

Welcome to Progressive Bloggers! And i'll second your agreement with Monte Solberg being a deliquent.

Goodales pretty great at handling himself i'd say, I wouldnt have been able to do that!
Cheers!

Unknown said...

Monte looked a bit silly the way his originial question had absolutely no potential for anything constructive to come out of it, but his "I don't blame you for not answering the question since you had nothing to do with the negociations around the NDP budget deal" or however he worded it was a good line.