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Aaron Wherry covers all the goings-on in and around Parliament Hill. Follow Aaron on Twitter: @aaronwherry

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Let’s all have a good laugh about parliamentary accountability

by Aaron Wherry on Wednesday, October 19, 2011 1:10pm - 13 Comments

Unable to get via Twitter to his question about Tony Clement’s promised committee appearance, John McCallum tried the Question Period yesterday. John Baird promptly stood on Mr. Clement’s behalf and assured the House that Mr. Clement would be taking questions from a parliamentary committee at some point.

This segued nicely into a lively exchange between Charlie Angus and Mr. Clement.

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  • Anonymous

    And politicians wonder why people don’t vote…

    • 6_66

      I don’t think they do. People not voting *is* the goal for them.

      • Anonymous

        Seems unlikely, unless they can guarantee the only ones voting will vote for their party.

        • 6_66

          The fewer people vote the easier it is to tailor your message to their needs.
          I think the whole “all politicians are bad (i.e. they are all the same)” message is also actively promoted by the politicians. They don’t want competition from a “new kind” of candidates.

          • Anonymous

            But you don’t know ahead of time who will vote and who won’t…so you can’t tailor a message.

            I’ve never heard a politician say or promote the idea that they are all bad. What would be the point in that?

          • http://dougsamu.wordpress.com doug rogers

            Because they’re talking directly to their base supporters who know in their hearts that the people they vote for aren’t politicians, but folk just like them.

        • http://dougsamu.wordpress.com doug rogers

          They have manoeuvred the vote split quite well. 

          • Anonymous

            This only works for Conbots…and the politicians could say anything to them and they’d still vote Con.

  • TenLostYears

    Tony Clement is a farging disgrace and I eagerly await the most partisan Conservative voices to tell me why this is just not true.

     This is the accountability you voted for?

     

  • kcm2

    Charlie Angus is really rather good. 

  • Brian

    I wish to shake my jowls, cluck my tongue, and stroke my beard then decry the use of the standing ovation. It was an insult to the standing ovation; unless even John Baird stood to make the ovation an insult.

  • Anonymous

    They all look like childish idiots. Question period has become the kind of impotent ritual the government wishes it to be.

  • Anonymous

    You’re only just getting around to laughing at the notion of accountability NOW Mr. Wherry?

    Please.  Accountability and transparency are SO 2006.

    Get with the times, LOL.

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