By Henry McRandall
WRISEUP.COM
Federal Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff held another press conference today to again decry Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s ongoing unwillingness to face the House of Commons.
Although Harper is also hiding from other pressing matters, the key issue in the prorogation of Parliament was his government’s unwillingness to obey a House of Commons order to turn over documents relating to the possibility Harper, Defence Minister Peter MacKay and other federal political and military officials may have committed war crimes.
The Opposition is right to press the issue.
Like most other countries, Canada is a signatory to the Geneva Conventions and other international treaties dealing with the conduct of war. And Canada’s authorized signature on those documents makes them sacred laws of this land, perhaps even more binding than the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom. read more »