Inside Politics

The MPCC Will Rise Again -- with or without a new permanent chair

by Kady O'Malley Posted: February 24, 2010 5:27 PM Last Updated: February 24, 2010 5:42 PM
Good news, prime minister!  We all know you've got a lot on your plate at the moment -- Speech from the Throne, budget, hockey book -- so it's entirely understandable that you haven't yet gotten around to replacing outgoing Military Police Complaints Commission chair Peter Tinsley, whose departure last December left the commission temporarily unable to continue looking into allegations related to the treatment of Afghan detainees (or, as your office almost invariably refers to them, "Taliban prisoners"). 

Anyway, yesterday, the acting chair -- former Windsor police chief Glenn Stannard, who was appointed to the commission in 2007 -- announced that he will be taking over Tinsley's spot on the panel that conducted an initial round of introductory hearings last year, which means that the next round of public hearings can proceed as scheduled later next month even if you haven't managed to find the perfect permanent chairperson by then. 

Here's the letter that Stannard sent to the parties involved:




Tags: afghan detainees, blackberry jungle, mpcc