Parliamentary hearing coverup in Ottawa

Courtesy of Xymphora:

"Amid heated charges of a coverup, Tory MPs on Thursday abruptly shut down parliamentary hearings on a controversial plan to further integrate Canada and the U.S.

The firestorm erupted within minutes of testimony by University of Alberta professor Gordon Laxer that Canadians will be left 'to freeze in the dark' if the government forges ahead with plans to integrate energy supplies across North America.

He was testifying on behalf of the Alberta-based Parkland Institute about concerns about the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), a 2005 accord by the U.S., Canada and Mexico to streamline economic and security rules across the continent. The deal, which calls North American 'energy security' a priority, commits Canada to ensuring American energy supplies even though Canada itself - unlike most industrialized nations - has no national plan or reserves to protect its own supplies, he argued.

At that point, Tory MP Leon Benoit, chair of the Commons Standing Committee on International Trade which was holding the SPP hearings, ordered Laxer to halt his testimony, saying it was not relevant.

And, it gets worse...

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[Jeremiah Cornelius]

It doesn't alter the transcript.

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[iminplaya]

Absolutely correct, but in many cases it works as a distraction away from the transcript. It serves to exploit the weak minded. As indicated by his response. It's a very typical one. The whole argument spins wildly off topic. He made no comment on the transcript itself whatsoever. Many won't even read it. I'm afraid that I have to say the commentary did the story a disservice. Now the transcript goes ignored, and everybody's screaming about the sidebar. To me it conjures up a possible double agent at work