Nothing Doing? Or is is Doing Nothing?

Parliament met today for the first time since the Manley Report was published. The Prime Minister seems to have taken the sting out of criticism by stating unequivocally this morning that he will accept the main recommendation that Canadian troops to stay in Afghanistan under specific conditions - 1,000 more combat troops and sufficient support equipment such as helicopters and observational drones. The first Question Period of the new parliamentary session proved more frustrating than enlightening, as might have been expected, because the government fended off criticism of its lack of information about Afghan detainees by repeating as nauseum that the policy is working and therefore refuses to report operational decisions by the military. It will be
interesting to see whether or not the opposition will follow up its accusations that the government misled the House on this issue. That should come later this afternoon.