This month my attention has been flicking back and forth between two political issues that, considered together, leave me nauseous about the state of Canadian parliamentary government. Well, maybe that’s not quite the way to put it: I feel a weird sense of contradiction, of being pulled in opposite directions. The first is the “green slush fund” story, the tale of the stillborn Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) fund. On Monday our Chris Nardi gave an important update on the bizarre standoff between the House of Commons and the federal public service, which is refusing to produce uncensored background documents on SDTC that were demanded in June by the House.