The notebook of a journalist in the Parliamentary Press Gallery.
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
The deployment vote trap
My column this week on Loonie Politics looks at the demands by the official opposition for a vote on military deployments, and why that is not only bad from the perspective of our system of Responsible Government, but why it's even worse for the Opposition itself. In fact, it's nothing less than a trap set by the government, that the leader of the opposition is running headlong into.
A freelance journalist in the Parliamentary Press Gallery. I contribute to Blacklock's Reporter and Loonie Politics, and wrote the Politics on TV column for Macleans.ca. I served as the Political Editor for Outlooks - Canada's GLBT Magazine, and have contributed to the Xtra chain, Ottawa Xpress, the Hill Times, the Ottawa Citizen, iPolitics.ca and The Canadian Press. I'm also an occasional talking head on CTV News Channel.
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