[Newsbot]

Title: House of Commons agrees to MP expense audit
Category: Political
Posted By: andyt
Date: 2010-06-15 10:26:10
Canadian

[andyt]

About time. I just hope they don't find ways to weasel out and limit what she can look at. Knowing Harper, he'll make his expenses a matter of national security.

[Zipperfish]

Another blow to Harper and victory for open government.

[stokes]

Thats right Zip, it is all Harpers doing, I dont think any MP's from the larger parties want to be open and accountable when it comes to their spending

[andyt]

stokes stokes:

Thats right Zip, it is all Harpers doing, I dont think any MP's from the larger parties want to be open and accountable when it comes to their spending

Nope, this time we had a coalition of the piggies that included all parties. Much as I hate Harper, I don't think he had any larger role to play here compared to other MP's - ie it was a parliamentary decision. I guess he could have put forward a motion and cracked the whip to get his party to vote for it - dare the other parties to vote against.

[2Cdo]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

Another blow to Harper and victory for open government.

I'd say more a blow to the Liberals ever returning to there "brown-bagging" ways.

[EyeBrock]

It's a good move. Parliament should be accountable to us, the tax payers.

Anybody fiddling the books should be criminally charged and kicked out of whatever caucus they are in. Tory, Lib, NDP or Bloc.

[ASLplease]

EyeBrock EyeBrock:

It's a good move. Parliament should be accountable to us, the tax payers.

Anybody fiddling the books should be criminally charged and kicked out of whatever caucus they are in. Tory, Lib, NDP or Bloc.

I agree. Accountability should be non partisan, and any party that doesn't like accountability ought to get their butts kicked out of power just like the Liberals did.

[Khar]

To be honest, I was happy to see all the parties squirming at this one, and am not surprised that none of the party leaders wanted to take a front seat on this one. tbh, I'm largely disappointed that none of Canada's major media providers took the time to remind Canadians that it was a failure on the part of all parties to react promptly.

I'm betting more than a few MPs are not happy about this, and I'm betting the conservatives got a big win here for being named in a few articles -- even if the media sort of chose to take the piss out of them for it.