UPDATE: Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff weighs in on the controversy during his post-caucus scrum- very, very carefully and likely mindful of the fact that parliamentary privilege does not extend to the Hall of Honour:
… but not, however, when it comes to the furore that continues to swirl around former Congress of Aboriginal People national chief Patrick Brazeau, one of the eighteen senators-in-waiting named to the Upper Chamber by the Prime Minister just before Christmas: