The official Opposition is using its second opposition day this week to debate a motion calling for a sweeping probe by the House of Commons health committee into a host of issues relating to the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The motion is so broad and the demand for documents so massive that the Liberals are expected to argue that its passage would paralyze the government — the same argument used to declare the first Conservative motion a confidence matter.
I mean really, like the Liberals are going to let Drunk Rempel the "health critic" commandeer anything (when she should really have her licence and keys taken away).
But there are, of course, continued dead horse beatings still occurring until morale improves. At some point the Finance and Ethics committee sideshows are going to spill over into the HoC and possibly catch the NDP in their own trap:
After the ongoing Liberal-driven filibuster managed to successfully run out the clock on yet another meeting last night, FINANCE is set to reconvene this afternoon to continue debate on a renewed push by the opposition to force the government to hand over un-redacted versions of various WE Charity-related documents that were previously provided to the committee under House order.That Liberal-driven filibuster isn't going to stop being "ongoing" anytime soon. Nor, presumably, are the red team going to passively acquiesce to Charlie "Silent G" Angus' latest spite move that is essentially a copycat of the Cons' "anti-corruption" motion the NDP "begrudgingly" defeated out of genuine concern for public health (gag), not when it reads like this:
Why would the Liberals agree to a "COVID accountability" motion that not only continues to assault the deceased equestrian mammal that is WeGhazi, but pulls completely unrelated pseudo-scandals (some of which have nothing whatsoever to do with COVID) into the fray and demands another document dump and circus parade of witnesses to be raked over the coals yet again?
Indeed, as Susan Delacourt points out in this morning's Star piece, this already tense minority clusterfuck was living on borrowed time awhile ago, and will probably clock out sooner rather than later — and for one big reason:
On the face of it, Trudeau might well have the most to gain from an election before this year is out. Successive elections, at home and abroad, have shown that votes held during the pandemic tend to favour the government in charge and even offer the real prospect of gains.
So the more the governing party keeps kicking the can and pissing off the exhausted committees hell-bent on pursuing fishing expeditions for no other reason than to make the government look bad, the more incentive the governing party has to push back and eventually cause their own "defeat."
As for me, I'm just as fed up with this clusterfuck minority parliament as I'm sure Justin Trudeau and his colleagues are.
Let's go to the polls already and sort it all out. Not necessarily an election, but an election if necessary.
