Roundup: Good questions about Trudeau’s proposals

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There have been a few good responses to Trudeau’s big announcement on Tuesday, including by Emmett Macfarlane and to an extent Andrew Coyne (though I have some respectful disagreements on points he’s made). But two of the best came in the form of Twitter essays, so I’m just going to post them here for your benefit, because they were that good.

https://twitter.com/jandrewpotter/status/611170331756138497

https://twitter.com/jandrewpotter/status/611170765392642048

https://twitter.com/jandrewpotter/status/611171120985706496

https://twitter.com/jandrewpotter/status/611171784683991041

https://twitter.com/jandrewpotter/status/611172117275521025

https://twitter.com/jandrewpotter/status/611172270812205056

https://twitter.com/jandrewpotter/status/611172430577471489

https://twitter.com/jandrewpotter/status/611172648702193664

https://twitter.com/jandrewpotter/status/611172838297329665

https://twitter.com/jandrewpotter/status/611173239570608128

https://twitter.com/jandrewpotter/status/611173399008706560

https://twitter.com/jandrewpotter/status/611173665888010240

https://twitter.com/EmmMacfarlane/status/611187983883083776

https://twitter.com/EmmMacfarlane/status/611188306441842689

https://twitter.com/EmmMacfarlane/status/611188371168305152

https://twitter.com/EmmMacfarlane/status/611193729186156544

Good reads:

  • In the Duffy Trial, the $90,000 cheque finally made its appearance as well as the revelation that Duffy took a $120,000/year pay cut to take a Senate seat.
  • A teenager has alleged a two-year affair with Senator Don Meredith, and has texts to prove it. He was summarily expelled from caucus. And yes, Harper appointed him.
  • Government computer systems suffered a DDoS attack from Anonymous in protest for C-51 passing yesterday. Here’s some background on the attack.
  • Joan Bryden fact checks the discrepancies that Thomas Mulcair has been making with regards to his corporate tax promises.
  • There are calls for the Chief of Defence Staff to be replaced a couple weeks ahead of retirement for his “biological wiring” comments.
  • Justin Trudeau defends his party’s position on C-51 (as though he would back down now).
  • Royce Koop shows how some of the AG’s findings on senators deserve to be questioned as it seems clear these senators were doing their jobs.

Odds and ends:

The Canada-EU trade agreement is stalled until after the election.

An indigenous philosophy professor wants the Langevin Block renamed because its namesake was an architect of residential schools.

The government spent $6.5 million defending 16 bills deemed to be unconstitutional.