From Frozen Snowshoe:
If a staff member was told to make sure he didn't step out of line at a convention and did so, she was just doing her job.
Really. Think about that for a moment. Is this person saying the NDP would send a staffer to monitor an elected MP, and try to prevent them from speaking? That's bordering on criminal.
How is that bordering on criminal? If everyone could speak whenever they chose for as long as they chose it would be chaos. The staffer was just doing her job.
I mean, the party has a perfect right to say to a caucus member that if they go somewhere, and say some things, they risk their position in caucus. This is far beyond that. This is downright suppression. It's one thing to say to someone that there may be repercussions from saying things, it's another thing altogether to demand they don't say those things at all, and put hired people in position to make sure they don't say them. That is unconscionable.
He wasn't silenced he just wasn't allow to speak at the mike.
Instead, the federal government’s discussion paper proposes output-based allocations for carbon-intensive, trade-exposed facilities. Weir is releasing a discussion paper comparing this approach to federal border adjustments. It outlines several advantages of border adjustments: they could be applied comprehensively, increase federal revenues rather than reducing provincial revenues, and comply with international trade agreements.
Federal NDP leadership candidate Peter Julian has endorsed this approach to ensure that carbon pricing applies consistently across the Canadian market, wherever the seller is located.
That was the idea too dangerous to be spoken aloud. These were the words a party staffer was sent to prevent Weir from speaking.
It wasn't too dangerous it was too stupid. Everyone who thinks they have a good idea doesn't get to present it at the mike. He could hand out his discussion paper, publish it on his website etc.
But my suggestion to the NDP membership is, 'clean house'. The bureaucrats have completely taken over the party, and it won't become a progressive party again until the bureaucracy is gone.
Depends on how you define progressive. Of the three parties it remains the most progressive. It does differ from the Liberal party. Why not make up your mind when the platform comes out?