Uselessness in motion

Just when you thought they couldn't get more cowardly, the Cons have managed to lower the bar once again in trying to escape responsibility for disowning Abousfian Abdelrazik:

(NDP) MP Paul Dewar tabled a motion at the House of Commons Foreign Affairs and International Development committee to force that stranded Canadian to appear for testimony.

The would-be witness - Sudanese-Canadian Abousfian Abdelrazik - has been effectively barred from the country and is living at the Canadian embassy in Khartoum.
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Dewar's motion passed easily, with support from all opposition parties while the Conservative members abstained Monday.

That's right: while the Harper government continues to make up ever-less-plausible excuses to try to wash their hands of a Canadian citizen stranded abroad, the Cons' rank-and-file MPs have apparently been ordered to pretend the problem doesn't exist rather than taking a stance one way or the other. Which should offer yet another reminder that when Canadians' interests are at stake, they can count on any Con MP to be told to sit down and shut up rather than doing anything to help.