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decorum

Ottawa

The existential crisis of the deputy speaker

Joe Comartin talks about his new gig.

Live-action attack ads

Keith Beardsley, a former Conservative aide, explains how members’ statements became attack ads . He concludes it’s now time to...

From the magazine

As he prepares for the most important week of his speakership to date, here is a piece from last week’s magazine on Speaker Andrew...

Q&A: Nathan Cullen

The NDP’s new House leader and I chatted on Tuesday about decorum, Question Period reform and the budget implementation act. Q: On...

Lunch room monitor

Joe Comartin would like to empower the Speaker somehow to better sort out the unruly. I was watching a session of Prime Minister’s...