The battery on my laptop computer gave out last night after two hours of liveblogging the “Committee of the Whole” debate on defence department spending, held last night in the House of Commons. Unfortunately, the debate lasted for four hours — ending just before 11 p.m. Ottawa time. I stuck around until about 10:30 pm, using the old-fashioned way of taking notes – a pen and a notebook.
There was lots of interesting stuff that I didn’t get a chance to blog about but I’m not going to update what I missed because the Hansard for that debate is now online. For those with an interest in defence policy, I highly recommend reviewing the debate for it’s not just all about Afghanistan (though a lot of it was). There were exchanges about the health of our reserve forces, about pilot training programs in Canada, about procurement, about Conservative promises to put the navy into the Arctic and many other subjects.