Toronto Sun.com: Minister's brother: Harper wants to dodge probe

[tuvor]

OTTAWA — The suspension of Parliament until March is under fire from the brother of one of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s own cabinet colleagues.

Arthur Kent, the younger brother of Minister of State of Foreign Affairs Peter Kent, used his news blog Sunday to charge that Harper prorogued Parliament primarily to stifle discussion of Afghanistan.

“In truth, there has been an unwritten fatwa maintained by the Prime Minister’s Office against discussion of any and all controversial aspects of the Afghan debacle,” wrote the Canadian-born journalist, who became known as the “Scud Stud” for his coverage of the first Iraq war.

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“The silencing of the House of Commons enables Harper to dodge a parliamentary committee’s probe into his government’s stifling of bad news from the Afghan war,” he wrote on skyreporter.com. He said as a result of “this information-control freakery, Canadians have been treated to a rose-tinted depiction” of Afghanistan’s corrupt government.

http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/01/10/12412736-qmi.html

[HeresyLives]

1. Oooch, ouch!

Easter dinner will be fun at the Kent home.