Sunday, April 19, 2009

Counted

The Ottawa Citizen reports on the voting records of the parties in Parliament since Michael Ignatieff took over the Libs. And about the best one can say for the Libs is that they don't always show up to do their desired damage in supporting the Cons:
Despite leader Michael Ignatieff’s vow that his party would no longer sit on its hands during votes in Parliament, Liberal MPs have missed three times as many votes in the House of Commons so far this year as Conservative members...

The Liberals posted the worst record for voting of the four parties in the House, standing to be counted fewer times on average than even Bloc Quebecois MPs.

And when Liberal MPs did show up, they voted the same way as the Conservatives 79 per cent of the time.


By contrast, Bloc MPs supported the government on only 14 per cent of votes. With the exception of a few MPs on one motion, NDP members voted against the Conservatives at every chance. Most of the votes where the Liberals aligned with the Tories were related to the budget.

No comments:

Post a Comment