On the Hill it is MPs Broadbent and MacKay watching ethics commissioner Bernard Shapiro. Mr. Shapiro has done such a terrible job that it adds even more proof that PM Martin is not interested in tackling the democratic deficit. (Hat-tip NealeNews)
...MP Ed Broadbent says he will formally call for Shapiro's resignation in the Commons next week.
..."Mr. Shapiro seems to be demonstrating daily that he's just as anemic as his predecessor," MacKay said outside the House on Friday.
"He's a wet noodle on this issue," he said of the ethics commissioner's probe of secretly-recorded discussions between Tory MP Gurmant Grewal and Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh and Tim Murphy, the prime minister's top aide.
MP Grewal's poor handling of his tapes has obscured the fact that Minister Dosanjh and Mr. Murphy were right at the limit of the law and definitely crossed the ethics line. If the ethics commissioner cannot investigate the PM's Chief of Staff then the rules have to be changed to allow and the ethics commissioner has to be committed enough to do his job.
