Roundup: Supply Day showdown

There is going to be a looming showdown over the duelling motions on special committees, and it’s the Conservatives’ Supply Day today, and their demand for an “anti-corruption committee” is going to be the motion they put forward, barring any last-minute climbdowns, with Erin O’Toole planning a press conference early in the morning to justify the position. The Liberal House leader, Pablo Rodriguez, has been more than hinting that this could very well be considered a confidence motion, as he describes said committee as an attempt to “paralyze” the government. The Bloc are on-side with the Conservatives, but the NDP are undecided, though they had a bit of a climbdown of their own yesterday as Charlie Angus said that they would limit their demands for the records of the speaking fees of the prime minister and his family to just him and his wife – documents which the Liberals provided yesterday (despite the fact that they were already in the public domain). So we’ll see how much of a performance all of the parties put on regarding these competing motions later today.

Meanwhile, WE Charity turned over a bunch of new documents on the speaking fees of the Trudeaus, and well, they don’t all match what had been disclosed before. Here’s Janyce McGregor with more:

There were also a couple of new revelations about the trip with WE that Bill Morneau repaid, for what it’s worth.

Good reads:

  • A bit of intra-Cabinet tension as the Indigenous Affairs minister says the RCMP have let down the Mi’kmaq, while Bill Blair has been praising their efforts. Awkward…
  • Bernadette Jordan says that the lobster stocks are strong, so there shouldn’t be a conservation issue underpinning the dispute with the Mi’kmaq.
  • The Canada-US border remains closed to non-essential travel for yet another month (but by late November, it could be a very different landscape there).
  • An internal review of the Express Entry immigration system is finding better outcomes for those immigrants who came through that process.
  • Susan Delacourt looks forward to the upcoming by-elections and what insights might be gleaned from them.
  • Colby Cosh delves into some of the tragedy-of-the-commons problems within the Nova Scotia lobster fisheries dispute.

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One thought on “Roundup: Supply Day showdown

  1. So they were off by a few hundred bucks. Who really cares at this point. There’s a pandemic going on, a race war in Nova Scotia, and chaos in the U.S. This conspiracy theory circlejerk is getting so tiresome it’s a wonder the opposition’s palms aren’t raw.

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