Secrets

It is the night before the Super Bowl game. The Bengals are playing the Packers and suddenly there is a law passed that the Packer's coach must turn over his play book to the enemy, the Bengals. I do not have to draw a picture for you to see what a disaster this would create.

We have a similar situation unfolding in Ottawa at this minute only it involves something much more serious than football. War. There is a ruling now in the House that the government has to turn over all secret documents to the sitting opposition because they have a right to know. They must have freedom of information. How this came about is the result of political game playing around the allegations that Canadian Forces in Afghanistan turned over prisoners to the Afghani Army and these prisoners were tortured. Torture in warfare, in a Muslim nation? Who'da thunk it? If all the secret documents surrounding Canada's security are released, there goes our National Security and there goes our game plan in Afghanistan and there go some more lives of our boys manning the stations over there.

So now the political parties in Ottawa have two weeks to come up with a solution, whereby National Security can be maintained, while at the same time, all the information a person wants will be provided. No doubt the solution will be that all MP's who read these documents will be sworn to secrecy. If that is indeed what will happen, what was the point of it all. This sensitive material that the Liberals want so they can embarrass the Conservatives, will not be allowed to go public because of the secrecy that was sworn. It is like the preacher who played hooky on Sunday morning and went to play golf instead of preach. He got a hole-in-one, but then had a real dilemma. Who was he going to tell?