At long last, the children—and by “children,” I mean MPs—have gone home for the summer. Finally. Not before there wasn’t another last-ditch effort by Conservatives to try and demand more committee hearings over the summer, because they need clips for their socials, after all. I also find it particularly strange that the Conservatives have been phrasing their condemnations that the other parties want to go back to their ridings to “vacation” for the summer, because normally MPs are extremely precious about the fact that this is not a break because they have sO mUcH wOrK tO dO in their constituencies and that if they had their druthers they’d do even more work in their constituencies and less in Ottawa, so this feels like the Conservatives making a tacit admission that they don’t do work in their constituencies. (I know they’re not, but this is what happens when you make dumb arguments to score points).
There is really not very much legislation to keep committees busy over the summer. Instead, the Conservatives are more interested in pursuing “studies” that would be little more than dog and pony shows for the sake of gathering clips for their socials. https://t.co/1KLXPW8cYS pic.twitter.com/YSZeBNoEvT
— Dale Smith (@journo_dale) June 19, 2024
This feels like the Conservatives admitting that they don’t do any work in their constituencies over the summer. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/GdQAKvDG5v
— Dale Smith (@journo_dale) June 19, 2024
https://t.co/iWgWFxoqDv pic.twitter.com/h7FQc5utUV
— Dale Smith (@journo_dale) June 19, 2024
This being said, MPs are absolutely behaving like children over all of this, and they all need a gods damned time out, not that I expect things to get much better in the fall because the incentives for this kind of behaviour remain—it’s all about getting clicks and engagement on their socials, and acting like children gets them that, apparently. It’s too bad the incentives aren’t there for them to act like adults, but the world has gone stupid.
The Conservative line is that Liberal MP Jennifer O’Connell was belittling foreign interference as an issue. In context, it was clear that she was not; she was just being rude to a parliamentary colleague in a procedural dispute. Quite proper to celebrate. https://t.co/twqgEGiiyb
— David Reevely (@davidreevely) June 20, 2024
Ukraine Dispatch
Russians resumed air attacks on Ukrainian power facilities. (Timeline of such attacks here). The fire at the oil terminal in southern Rostov burned for a second day after Ukraine’s drone strike. Here’s a look at how Russian glide bombs have accelerated the time it takes for them to destroy front-line settlements in Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/ukraine_world/status/1803342727267885346
⚡️Russian attacks against Ukraine kill 4, injure 14 over past day.
Russia targeted a total of 13 Ukrainian oblasts — Chernihiv, Mykolaiv, Luhansk, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, and Donetsk. https://t.co/E59HDuCHao
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) June 20, 2024