Monday, July 10, 2006

Summer plans

The CP reports that the opposition parties have teamed to to make sure that the softwood lumber capitulation gets addressed in committee before the Cons have too much time to twist arms in the industry.

We'll see whether David Emerson accepts the committee's invitation (I wouldn't be surprised if he prefers taking up time with his own talking points rather than allowing the deal's opponents to completely dominate the discussion), but either way the push for a real defence of Canadian interests is on. And if the story gets a chance to build momentum during the otherwise quiet summer, it may not be long before the voices silenced by Harper during the negotiations help to end the Cons' (however unimpressive) honeymoon in the polls.

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