Your Liberal research bureau at work

The Conservatives' worksheet has been analyzed in record time by the Liberals and -- please note the government said this wasn't an *exhaustive* list of what MPs had been doing -- here's how the Grits sum up the prorogation-duty report.

Here is a breakdown of how many days each Conservative MP worked (according to the document the Conservatives just released). Note that between January 1st and today, there has been exactly 40 work days for most Canadians.

 

The list says 68 of their MPs worked, leaving 77 Conservative MPs who didn’t work a single day.

 

 

 

1 day - Inky Mark

1 day - James Rajotte

1 day - Jay Hill

1 day - Joe Preston

1 day - John Duncan

1 day - LaVar Payne

1 day - Merv Tweed

1 day - Mike Allen

1 day - Mike Lake

1 day - Patrick Brown

1 day - Phil McColeman

1 day - Pierre Poilievre

1 day - Randy Hoback

1 day - Randy Kamp

1 day - Royal Galipeau

1 day - Stephen Woodworth

1 day - Steven Blaney

1 day - Steven Fletcher

1 day - Ted Menzies

1 day- Barry Devolin

1 day- Bruce Stanton

1 day -Candice Hoeppner

1 day- David Sweet

2 days - Cathy Macleod

2 days - Chris Warkentin

2 days - Christian Paradis

2 days - James Moore

2 days - Lois Brown

2 days - Nina Grewal

2 days - Rob Merrifield

2 days - Rob Nicholson

3 Days - Andrew Saxton

3 days - Brian Jean

3 days - Chuck Strahl

3 days - Diane Ablonczy

3 days - Larry Miller

3 days - Scott Armstrong

3 days - Shelly Glover

4 days - Bev Oda

4 days - Dean Del Mastro

4 days - Gail Shea

4 days - Lisa Raitt

4 days - Peter Kent

4 days - Rob Moore

4 days - Rodney Weston

4 days - Rona Ambrose

4 days - Stockwell Day

5 days - Gary Lunn

5 days - Gerry Ritz

5 days - Jim Prentice

5 days - Josee Verner

5 days - Leona Aglukkaq

5 days - Peter Van Loan

5 days - Vic Toews

6 days - Jason Kenney

6 days - John Baird

6 days - Lawrence Cannon

6 days - Lynne Yellich

8 days - Denis Lebel

8 days - Jean-Pierre Blackburn

8 days - Keith Ashfield

9 days - Helena Geurgis

9 days - Peter Mackay

10 days - Gary Goodyear

11 days - Diane Finely

12 days - Jim Flaherty

15 days - Tony Clement

21 days - Stephen Harper

Comments

[Derek]

It's nice to have time off for the holidays.

[MyThought]

Do you know if these days included or were press conferences?

Just wondering.

Seems to me, the ones with the most days did press conferences.

[Catherine]

9 days for Helena Guergis.

Well, no wonder the poor girl had a temper tantrum and hissy fit at the airport.

Time for her to recalibrate.

[Sarann]

Rob Nicholson should be spanked for not doing his work. Can we put that in one of the the tough on crime bills. And people who kick up at airports should be tasered and locked up. And people caught driving while under the influence should not be given a second chance. Except of course if they are conservatives.

[Ontario Voter]

The Cons/Reform work ethic seems to be take 8 weeks off, then propose to work for 2 weeks when others need the break to recalibrate (after their hard work). Do the 33% of Canadians who claim they will vote for this party (this week's EKOS)agree with this type of work ethics?

[Robert Viera]

My Conservative MP has been working very hard to look as though he is ... hard at work. Here are some of his 'tweets':

# working in my Barrie office right now on constit case work for residents. looking forward to Canada Germany Olympic hockey game tonight 2:02 PM Feb 23rd via web

# working in constituency office today. lots of case files that need work. lots of Barrie residents in and out of the office today 11:06 AM Feb 9th via web

# busy with meetings in the constituency office this afternoon. lots of passports, immigration files and federal budget suggestions 9:19 AM Feb 5th via web

# heading into constit office for some Saturday morning meetings. it is ridiculously cold in Barrie today. 6:31 AM Jan 30th via mobile web

# working at constit office...lots of visits despite snow storm in Barrie 1:06 PM Jan 28th via mobile web

# busy day working in constituency office. lots of passports, immigration work and charity work 3:55 PM Jan 27th via mobile web

# going back to my constit office for some evening meetings. constituency casework is certainly high volume in Barrie 2:08 PM Jan 26th via mobile web

# working in my Barrie office all day serving constituents 6:14 AM Jan 25th via mobile web

Source: twitter.com/brownbarrie

[Silly]

Susan, doesn't copying and pasting Liberal news releases perpetuate the "silliness" that you complained about in your last blog post. The Conservatives clearly were working throughout prorogation just as the NDP and Liberals were working.

[Jacques Belley]

No work no pay,like any other business.."

[Gabby in QC]

You used the term "juvenilia" in a previous thread, I assume in the sense of infantile or puerile. Thanks to you, my vocabulary has been expanded.

However, shouldn't the Grit Research Bureau do some editing of the "juvenilia" it releases?
1. "Note that between January 1st and today, *there has been exactly 40 work days* for most Canadians."
• Ahem ... there *have* been ...
• Isn't January 1st a statutory holiday in Ottawa?
• The House was adjourned on Dec. 10, 2009 and was scheduled to return on Jan. 25, so in actual fact, between Jan. 25 and Feb. 25 there have been 24 work days for MPs, not 40 as suggested. MPs would NOT have been back at work on the same day most Canadians returned to work.

2. "The list says 68 of their MPs worked, leaving 77 Conservative MPs who didn’t work a single day."
The Research Bureau neglected to read this at the very top of the worksheet they analysed:
"Please note that *this list is by no means exhaustive* and does not include the majority of MPs’ constituency events."

The Research Bureau probably thought *exhaustive* meant very tiring.

[MyThought]

Constituency work? You've got to be kidding. They all have staff to do their inhouse office stuff. The "staff" do the work.

The Con MP's go to fundraisers and show up at events to look good. Oh, so hard.

[Patrick Doyle]

@ Robert Viera

Oh YA Brown is working hard. I went to the townhall meeting. What a joke. it was suppose to be about environment issues with Simcoe Lake. Turned out to be a pat on the back for Brown from his friends. Only 10 people showed up.( 4 of them where from CAPP we where there just to see what they had to say. Press release soon to come)) It was a total joke. I would love for him to hold a real townhall meeting. Where we can ask him questions on the senate, budget, crime bills, and so on.

[Frank Docherty]

According to FAIR, http://fairwhistleblower.ca/, Ottawa has lots of work to keep them busy. Perhaps most important would be recalibrating their obtuse defence of the Afghan Detainee Torture allegations.

[A.G. Chalmers]

So if all is true and believable. The proroging of parliamnet did nothing to hinder the opertation of running our country.
I will say one thing in relation to parliement is..........
I didn/t have to listen to the liberal and ndp winneimng leaders.
It still beat me as to how their parties ever voted them to the leadership.
No wondert Harper poroged for a few weeks.