Roundup: Letting delay tactics happen

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The childish games continue in the House of Commons, as the Conservatives have been using dilatory tactics to avoid debating the Ukraine trade treaty implementation bill. It’s back from committee and was ready for report stage debate yesterday, but the Conservatives decided that instead, they really needed to debate an eighteen-month-old committee report on food security, and insisted that this wasn’t delaying at all. *cough*bullshit*cough* The Liberals were performatively outraged, Mark Gerretsen marching out to the Foyer to decry the move to the camera stationed there (I was the only reporter around, mostly because I was socialising with Gallery staff). There wasn’t a vote called before the Conservatives proceeded with this dilatory debate, meaning I’m sure the Liberals let them go ahead with it so that they could further bludgeon the Conservatives and question their support for Ukraine, and talk about how they’re playing into the hands of the Kremlin, or MAGA Republicans, or what have you. Because remember, everything is now for clips.

Meanwhile, can I just point to how ridiculous the both-sidesing is in that Canadian Press piece? The other parties “accuse” the Conservatives of stalling, and quote the party spokesperson as denying that they’re stalling, while getting reaction from the other parties. It’s an obvious, transparent stall tactic. The spokesperson is obviously lying. And I get why CP thinks they need to both-sides this so that they can be supremely neutral about it all, but this is why the Conservatives learned that they can get away with lying all the gods damned time. They know they won’t be called on it, because performative neutrality demands it, rather than doing the job of simply pointing out the truth.

Ukraine Dispatch:

Russians have claimed to have captured the villages of Khromove as well as Maryinka, though Ukraine’s government won’t confirm anything. Here is an explainer about what is at stake with Avdiivka. Ukraine’s spy agency says that the successfully staged two explosions along a rail line in Siberia that serves as a key conduit to China. Associated Press had a fairly wide-ranging interview with president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in which he talks about what they need in order to win the war.

Good reads:

  • Steven Guilbeault says that recent court decisions have forced the government to take another look at the coming oil and gas emissions cap.
  • Arif Virani won’t say if the government is looking to create a new regulator to enforce online harms legislation, if and when it ever gets tabled.
  • Senior officials say they didn’t verify that the Métis groups in Ontario were valid before they went ahead with self-governing legislation.
  • Some thirteen federal departments have used tools that amount to surveillance without getting proper privacy impact assessments as required by law.
  • CSIS says they are investigating their BC office after the media allegations of sexual assault and a toxic workplace surfaced in the media.
  • The Canadian Forces Polaris aircraft that collided with a French plane in Guam in July is going to be written off and scrapped on site, as it’s not worth repairing.
  • Here is what we know so far about the Google deal under the Online News Act.
  • Two Chinese groups in Montreal want an apology from the RCMP for alleging they hosted secret Chinese “police stations.”
  • The Supreme Court of Canada ruled 2-1-2 (really!) that evidence of drug trafficking couldn’t be thrown out after the initial search of the suspect was unconstitutional.
  • Here is a closer look at the clean electricity regulations that Alberta is bristling against, and what challenges the province faces in meeting them.

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