Putting the blue in blue ribbon

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has finally announced his appointees to the "blue-ribbon" panel that's supposed to work out an employment-insurance deal with Liberals this summer. (The Liberal half of the panel is made up of MPs Marlene Jennings and Mike Savage, along with Ignatieff's policy guy, Kevin Chan.) Here's the Conservative side:

 PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER ANNOUNCES MEMBERS OF EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WORKING GROUP

OTTAWA –  Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced the appointment of the Government's members of the Employment Insurance working group.

The Government's representatives on the working group are:

• Hon. Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development;

• Pierre Poilievre, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister;

• Malcolm Brown, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Department of Human Resources and Skills Development.

Comments

[Wascally Wabbit]

I'm sure they will participate in a non-partisan examination of the facts in a collegial manner - and come up with a common report out of this exercise - aren't you Susan?
And I have fairies at the bottom of my garden...

Should provide the reason to go forward with the next confidence vote forcing the dropping of the writ...

[Inge Jordan]

The choice of Poilievre shows, again, that the PM is hell-bent on confrontation and on humiliating and making fun of the Liberals, which will hopefully put them off any more illusions of "cooperation", a word Mr. Harper clearly does not understand.