Honourable A.Brian Peckford
October 5, 2024
The ‘Goings On ‘ In Our Parliament .
Most Canadians don’t follow our Parliament’s proceedings . Most rely on the interpretation of others. Mainly the Press. And we know its credibility don’t we?
Well, the latest is whether Parliament should have access to documents it has requested. The Speaker has ruled it does. The Government is resisting releasing such documents. The documents to the now cancelled Government’s Green Fund. The Auditor General finds that numerous conflicts of interest were committed in the dispense of the money from the Green Fund. However, the Auditor General and the RCMP say that they are concerned about the release of such documents in that the release may infringe upon the Charter Rights of people involved and the RCMP says that such additional information may not help and likely is not criminal activity that the people were engaged in. Meanwhile , the business of Parliament is disrupted .
Now these are opinions of Agencies of Government .
The Auditor General Office is a creation of The Parliament .
The RCMP is a creation of The Parliament.
Parliament is supreme and controls how it operates.
We know from The AG’s report that money was dispensed wrongly ( to use a mild word ) and conflicts of interest occurred.
So it seems to me that Parliament should take matters in its own hands and move decisively on this matter .
An interim measure could be a Special Committee of the House ( sworn to secrecy ) to receive the documents , determine whether Charter provisions are at play and whether the documents should be released to full Parliament and the public. A report back to Parliament in a month.
In any case Parliament can move now on the ‘conflict of interests ‘ in the the Auditor General’s report through a Parliamentary Committee process whose hearings would be public to determine the necessary involvement of the Ethics and Conflict of Interest Commissioner in pursuing those public servants and Ministers , parliamentary secretaries who may have violated the Conflict of Interest Law. Additionally, the Committee should examine other possible violations of regulation, law in the dispensing of these green funds .
It is to hard to follow them in parliament. We were watching them in parliament when the trucker convoy was happening. Just watching brings out the anger, really really strong anger. It is too hard to watch the corruption and incompetence. It is a joke. Why they even have question period, when they do not even answer the question. I wrote letters to every MP and Senator not one wrote back except the crazy May. We had to stop watching due to how angry it makes you. Sent a letter to the house speaker a few times finally wrote back. I had said that they should be held in contempt and go to jail. Guess what they do not have to answer the question. I was floored that is the case. Now I know they all read the letters, as one MP brought up my who is a member of WEF, Roto shut him down with we have sound problems and Senator Donald Neal Plett ?? said in his speech, we all got the same letter. They do not care about any Canadian.