On a failure to hold to account

If you're looking for a remotely critical view of the Cons' selective-accountability legislation, CTV may not be the place for you:

Another key feature of the legislation is a mandatory five-year break before former ministers and other senior public officials can lobby government.

"Someone said this is going to potentially cost us a lot of very good staffers or cost us a lot of very good public officials and perhaps that's true," said Baird.

"But, if people want to come to Ottawa, get involved in the federal government to make a difference for their country that should be the motive, not to look at what they could do to set themselves up later for a lucrative career."

The article doesn't mention the Access to Information provisions promised in the Cons' platform which are apparently being removed from the legislation, nor the unduly limited definition of "staffers" that will allow anybody with Con connections from past Parliaments to lobby as they see fit. Instead, the only doubt implicit in CTV's article is as to whether the Cons may be going too far. And that willingness to present the story through Con-coloured glasses does nothing but undermine any hope that this government will be kept accountable in the least.