It only took about two minutes Tuesday night for the federal election campaign's newest character issue, the conclusions of the Auditor-General's leaked report on the G8/G20 summit, to break the surface of the English-language federal leaders' election debate.

Canadian Parliamentarians would have had a lot more credibility when they claimed the Auditor General has no business auditing MPs' accounts if they’d had the courage last week to stand up to the prime minister on Parliament’s absolute right to see the so-called Afghan detainee documents.