Toronto Sun: Rae predicts 'major confrontation' when Parliament resumes

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OTTAWA — Opposition MPs won’t shy away from punishing the Conservative government when Parliament resumes in March if it does not hand over crucial documents, they said Wednesday.

Liberal foreign affairs critic Bob Rae predicted a “major confrontation” was looming between opposition parties and the government.

“We are pretty close to a banana republic and a banana democracy here,” Bloc Quebecois defence critic Claude Bachand said.

Liberal, NDP and Bloc MPs say Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government is violating the Canadian Constitution by refusing to release documents they lawfully demanded using a rare parliamentary privilege.

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http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/02/03/12730131-qmi.html

As someone on another message board posted earlier today, "Even Nixon handed over his tapes."