MP Garth Turner has now been turfed from the finance committee. He’s not taking this one lying down though and has dished out a little dirt on what PMS is doing behind the scenes.

This government has actually had a PMO senior staffer in national caucus recently instructing MPs on how to politicize the committees and turn them into instruments of government policy.

Like I’ve said before, this new conservative movement, as defined by the Bush Republicans and Harper Conservatives, devotes most of its time to the politics of electioneering at the expense of good governance.