Don Martin, National PostPublished: Friday, May 18, 2007 Canada.com
OTTAWA - A secret guidebook that details how to unleash chaos while chairing parliamentary committees has been given to select Tory MPs.Running some 200 pages including background material, the document -- given only to Conservative chairmen -- tells them how to favour government agendas, select party-friendly witnesses, coach favourable testimony, set in motion debate-obstructing delays and, if necessary, storm out of meetings to grind parliamentary business to a halt.
OTTAWA - A secret guidebook that details how to unleash chaos while chairing parliamentary committees has been given to select Tory MPs.Running some 200 pages including background material, the document -- given only to Conservative chairmen -- tells them how to favour government agendas, select party-friendly witnesses, coach favourable testimony, set in motion debate-obstructing delays and, if necessary, storm out of meetings to grind parliamentary business to a halt.
Government whip Jay Hill called chairmen to his office for a refresher course on advancing the government agenda over opposition objections.
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