Parliamentary business has been relentlessly filibustered over Trudeau's refusal to hand over 'green slush fund' documents

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Although the issue has gone almost entirely unnoticed among the general public, next week the House of Commons is set to mark two months in which it hasn’t actually done anything.

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MPs are showing up to work, petitions are being tabled and quips are being lobbed during question period, but bills aren’t getting passed, votes aren’t being held and legislation isn’t being debated. In other words, the House of Commons isn’t doing any of the actual things that it’s traditionally tasked with doing.

It’s not quite a filibuster and it’s not quite a government shutdown; most media accounts are referring to it as a “gridlock” or a “quagmire.” But it’s severely handicapped the ability of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government to do anything — and if it keeps going past Christmas it could potentially throw the country into a snap election.

And it’s all because, since September, the Trudeau government has been refusing to hand over a dossier of potentially incriminating documents related to the so-called “green slush fund.”

That would be Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), a federal agency that was rolled up by the Liberals within hours of a scathing Auditor General report alleging that it had been used as a conduit for tens........

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