All eyes on Milliken

With the botched Liberal abortion fiasco behind us, the next big shoe to drop will be from the Speaker of the House, who has the responsibility of determining whether or not the Government is in contempt of Parliament. If he says no, then Justice Yacobucci can go full steam ahead; if he says yes, then we could have a possible confidence vote to affirm his decision. The opposition can then vote in favour of contempt and vote non confidence, or if they are afraid of an election they could skip the vote to affirm their original motion. Liberals are very skilled at skipping important votes in the House of Commons, as we all know.

The opposition is getting frustrated with the Speaker. They are demanding that he speed things up, and make a quick decision. Meanwhile on Thursday the Government released 2500 pages of documents for them to read while they wait. They are complaining that parts are blacked out, but what did they expect? The Tories wanted to give the opposition something to chew on, but they still need Justice Yacobucci to read the blacked out parts and determine what is or is not a threat to our soldiers in the field.

Had the Government provided the original documents yesterday, they would have been going against what they have been saying along, that they contain sensitive military information. Some of that information also includes intelligence reports from our NATO allies. I'm sure the Brits would love for their top secret reports to be put in the hands of Ujjal Dosanjh...