Fieldnotes from Parliament Hill this week

An opinion piece (scribbled for therapeutic purposes)

This past week on Parliament Hill there was pomp and pageantry, a spectacle of parliamentarian tradition, and, most unfortunate for Canadians, much more of the same. This is a short opinion piece that looks behind the legacy news headlines. And, I offer a trigger warning for those CarAnons (once TruAnons) who might be stuck in the “Elbows Up” position. Here are a few fieldnotes from the Hill….

The light parliamentary schedule is inexcusable

You would think that with Canadians having just returned a Liberal government in what was coined “the most consequential election of a lifetime” with the country facing “an existential crisis”, our Prime Minister would insist MPs sit through summer to save our country from its fateful demise.

But, the Carney Liberals have scheduled to sit in Parliament for only four weeks before breaking for the summer. PM Carney decided parliamentarians had nothing urgent to debate and there was no need to deliver a budget with details of the country’s fiscal situati…