First, this is the closest thing to new news I could find this morning on the AHF issue. Call me cynical, but I sense a stall tactic from the Tories…
On the subject of stall tactics, I ran across this very tangential article on Brian Leiter’s, ‘Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog’ that happened to mention Conservative legal counsel and former Canadian Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci in a less than flattering light for his apparent role in curtailing free speech at York University in Toronto. Followers of the Afghanistan Detainee Documents issue here in Canada will recognize Mr. Iacobucci’s name – he’s the ‘independent counsel’ that Harper mandated to vet documents for the Conservative administration and decide what could be released without compromising 'national security'. All of this charade in contravention of Canadian Parliamentary law. One might infer by Mr. Iacobucci’s employment affiliation, not to mention his involvement with this York U freedom of speech issue, that expectations regarding the level of transparency he will bring to the detainee issue might be compromised.
I promise to get back to quotes soon…
