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Canadian Politics

David Akin, of CTV, was recently juggled over to Ottawa to report on Parliament Hill. David also blogs and his recent post about the coming Federal Budget due Feb 28th is here.
David links to a few other Canadian blogs, one of which is Paul Wells at MacLeans which had the item:

The China sin drum

Just got off the phone with Jason Kenney, who stepped out of the House of Commons today and called the Prime Minister a liar.
"I thought about using that language inside the House, but I respect the traditions of the place," Kenney said.
Paul Martin had spent a chunk of Question Period accusing Kenney, the Calgary Southeast MP, of skipping out on the important meetings, staging a publicity stunt by visiting the house of the late reformist premier Zhao Ziyang, and holding down a bar in Hong Kong when he should have been doing the important work.
Kenney called the PM's version of events a farrago of lies. He wasn't in Hong Kong when the PM had him getting soused. He missed one meeting, he said, because he had to fly home for an AGM in his riding that had been long-scheduled "whereas on this trip, we were getting the schedule each morning." (The NDP didn't even have an MP in China. The party's leader, Jack Layton, attended the tsunami-relief events earlier in the tour, but had to cut his own participation short.)
I wasn't on the trip. I bow to colleagues and the official record on this, and on that basis I can't endorse Kenney's version of events. But suddenly we're in an interesting set of circumstances. An MP has called the PM a liar, outside the priveleged setting of the Commons. If Kenney is wrong, he's in big trouble. If he's right, and can make that case, then the Prime Minister of Canada spent the afternoon misleading the Commons, and he's in big trouble.
What are Kenney's plans for Tuesday? "I intend to pursue this," he said.