Just in from Liberal HQ:
OTTAWA– Liberal Democratic Reform and Intergovernmental Affairs critic Stéphane Dion sent the following letter to NDP Justice critic Françoise Boivin today in response to the NDP’s request for Liberal support for the motion passed by the Quebec National Assembly earlier this month:
Ms. Françoise Boivin, MP
152 Confederation Building
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6Madam Member,
On behalf of the Liberal caucus, thank you for your letter dated April 29, 2013.
In your letter, you suggested that the Liberal caucus join the New Democratic Party in asking the Conservative government what its response will be to the motion passed by the Quebec National Assembly on April 16, 2013.
This motion calls for the federal government to release archived documents related to the constitutional negotiations which led to the patriation of the Constitution in 1982.
However, the federal government has already stated that it does not intend to give policy directives to civil servants responsible for the application of the Access to Information Act.
We would like the government to hold firm in this respect. The Conservatives already have a tendency to politicize everything; there is no need to encourage them in this bad habit. The last thing we should do is politicize the application of the Access to Information Act.
We believe this act should be strengthened; however, this should be done as part of a global legislative review and not in response to one specific request for information.
In your letter, you criticize the Supreme Court. Your leader, Mr. Mulcair, took things one step further by accusing the Supreme Court of never having had the intention to seriously investigate the allegations of inappropriate communications between judges and members of the executive branch in 1981.
We are distancing ourselves from these irresponsible and unfounded comments. There is no doubt in our minds that the Supreme Court investigated as it should.
We suggest that you leave history to historians. But, let’s not be naïve: separatist leaders have a vested interest in reinforcing the idea of a scheme in the minds of Quebeckers in order to undermine their confidence in the Supreme Court, in Canada and in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
To summarize, your leader has demonstrated irresponsibility on three fronts by attempting to politicize the application of an act, by criticizing the Supreme Court without foundation and by playing the game of separatist leaders.
If the NDP wants to play that game, it will have to play it with the Bloc alone once again.
Sincerely,
Hon. Stéphane Dion, MP
Liberal Democratic Reform and Intergovernmental Affairs critic
This response by Dion shows what poor judgement the Liberals had in ever electing Dion as their leader. Good thing he never had the chance to be PM, although I must admit he could hardly be worse than harper.
We are distancing ourselves from these irresponsible and unfounded comments.=== anyone with any sense should distance themselves from this labour (USW) NDP party.
Is Dion still around? I thought he would do as Motley Crew sang about: Don’t go away mad, just go away. After disgracing the Liberal party with the help of (LOL) Gerard Kennedy to one legendary defeat. Who can forget Dion running around Canada during the last few desperate and frantic weeks of his campaign forgetting the letter “H” and screaming to crowds ” Stephen arper is a liar”. It is nice to see that the Liberals are continuing with the bad choice theme by thinking a name from decades well in the history books will see that they regain control of Canada (dream on). A name that garners no experience, wisdom or thought before opening ones mouth but called to speak resembling that of another word for a donkey or the backside of the human body when he does.
The people who wrecked Dion’s campaign were Christians who believed too much in a fairy tale afterlife for Biblethumpers, and not enough in ensuring human high Q-of-L in this world and for our children. If you want to believe in Santa, give your networths to your children or to a university or to Provincial coffers (health and education I figure). first. Boomers did your job defeating communism, instead of re-educating yourself you reinforced PTSD (resisting urge for ‘Nam joke).