Our parliamentary committees should operate better, especially now

It’s time for Parliamentarians, from all political parties, to sit down together and talk about how our parliamentary committees could operate better, with more independence and greater assistance from expert staff.

Members of the House Access to Information, Privacy, and Ethics Committee in the Wellington Building, pictured on July 23, 2020. Parliamentary committees are the natural venue and yet, today, too many CEOs would rather pass on an invitation from a parliamentary committee. Who could blame them?

Opinion

BY KEVIN LYNCH AND PAUL DEEGAN

June 10, 2021

OTTAWA—These have not been the finest days for the Parliament of Canada. A Member of Parliament urinated on camera during a non-public House session. This, after he was caught naked on camera during a House session a few weeks earlier. Recently, Mark Carney, vice chair of Brookfield Asset Managem...

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