Parliament

Halloween in the Commons: Time to shame the committee chairs

Keith Beardsley, a former Conservative official, laments for the spectacle of the House between 2pm and 3pm each afternoon. What’s...

A recent poll from Forum Research. Within that sample, only 33% of Conservative supporters agreed that government’s should be...

The NHL joins Major League Baseball in opposing Joe Comartin’s bill on sports betting. Now that Joe Comartin is the deputy...

An exchange from Monday’s budget debate between the NDP’s Kennedy Stewart and Conservative MP Terrence Young. Cap-and-trade is, of...

It is to the Macdonald government’s eternal shame that it did not enact a proper FAQ in 1882

An interesting exchange from the very end of yesterday’s debate on the budget. The problem for Mr. Galipeau and Ms. Smith is that...

Michael Ignatieff tries to draw a line between adversaries and enemies. I always have a hard time wrapping my head around the idea...

The Commons: ’So much for the Leader of the Opposition raising the tone of political debate in this place’

The Conservatives sent up four backbenchers during members’ statements today to complain about a carbon tax. Among them was Cheryl...