The Harper government is beginning to resemble nothing so much as the post-watergate Nixon administration. Today, government members of the panel looking into detainee abuses simply failed to show up, effectively suspending this work. And as noted earlier, rumors are swirling about a proroguing of Parliament.
Not surprisingly, the opposition parties are howling. But their degrees of freedom are not zero here. It is unlikely that the Harper Conservatives want to fall on this issue. If the opposition parties could signal credibly their willingness to bring this about in the absence of a full hearing into this issue, the response would likely be positive.
The problem is that the opposition parties are being as, or even more, cowardly than the Conservatives. The Liberal leader in particular, with his international reputation on human rights issues could put his credibility to great use in insisting that we immediately address what is indeed an allegation of war crimes.
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