OttawaWell, isn’t he a lucky little newbie MP?Look who won the lottery for consideration of Private Members’ business! If that’s not an auspicious omen to kick off one’s...
OttawaIt will surprise no one, I’m sure ...... that I’m on the CBC’s side on this one. From Canadian Press : It’s hard to see how this kind of deliberative, legislated...
OttawaProcedure and House Affairs: Liveblogging the very first committee meeting of the 40th ParliamentGosh, I hope I remember how to do this - it’s been so long. Anyway, presuming I’m still able to find the committee room, check...
OttawaAnd yet somehow, it seemed as though the Tories were clapping *at* them, not *with* them.Just watched the vote on the Bloc subamendment to the Speech from the Throne (because, as previously established on so many...
OttawaNew Era of Parliamentary Civility Watch: Now, see, was that so hard?Heard in the House today, mere moments after QP had careened to a close:
OttawaUPDATED: GiornoWatch: Special post-election edition!Okay, okay - it’s a little bit late, but we had to wait for the latest updates to GEDS, not to mention the latest Langevin gossip...
OttawaWatch out, global financial meltdown - committees are (almost definitely coming) back!According to this week’s Hill Times , the government and opposition parties are going to try to get the rest of the committees up...
OttawaPlease tell me that my inbox isn’t about to be flooded with these ...Seriously - how many other Conservative backbenchers are going to see this and think, "Hey, with copy/paste and a bit of...
OttawaParliamentary Budget Office: No, Prime Minister, you didn’t create an "independent position".From yesterday’s Question Period: Oh, Prime Minister. Really, this question was a gimme - all you had to do was say...
OttawaCommittee business: Eleventy-member committees? Okay, that works too.Okay, so it’s not quite the ITQ proposal which would have bumped opposition-chaired committees up to thirteen members, but...