Having made my last entry on the civility of politics, I suppose balance requires me to comment on perhaps one of the most direct exchanges I have witnessed in some time. NDP member Peter Stoffer issued a press release yesterday trying to make some hay at the expense of Conservative-appointed senators. What is not mentioned is that the Conservatives made several attempts at Senate reform -- make whatever you want of the motives for those attempts, the fact of these attempts cannot be denied -- and when they were blocked by the Liberals, the Prime Minister relented and appointed a number of senators.
The NDPs commitment to abolishing the Senate is enough of a defining policy to warrant inclusing on the NDPs wikipedia entry but I must admit it seems a bit over the top to critique Conservative Senators for what seems to be ordinary amounts of parliamentary spending among those newly appointed Senators. It appears from the video that Mr. Stoffer was not quite ready for the bluntness of Senator Mike Duffy's response, who called him an "actor" and a "fake" in a CBC inteiew on the question. Hardly the civility I highlighted the other day, but you must admit, it does make for entertaining TV.
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