UncategorizedLet’s save Question PeriodHere , again, is Frances Ryan’s look at Question Period reform. Here is the longer essay from which that article is derived. Lots...
UncategorizedDisturbance in the HouseIn the autumn issue of Canadian Parliamentary Review, Evan Sotiropoulos applies a little qualitative and quantitative analysis to...
UncategorizedThe audacity of youthA pair of young journalists led Jack Layton’s scrum yesterday with questions about heckling in the House. They would seem to have...
Uncategorized’Let us keep the faith. Let us keep hope’After Question Period yesterday, the House paused to mark Remembrance Day. Fine contributions from Greg Thompson, Rob...
UncategorizedThe Commons: In joyful strains then let us sing, Advance Australia FairIn the race to provide H1N1 vaccines, second place is first loser
UncategorizedDramatic flourish of the dayThe NDP’s Pat Martin asks a question of the government this afternoon.
UncategorizedThe Commons: Questions, assurances, innuendo and a man named DonaldIggy asks why, Layton does some digging and Tony Clement takes a break
Uncategorized’Mensonges, mensonges, mensonges’After Question Period yesterday, Conservative Rick Dykstra rose to complain that Gilles Duceppe had referred to a government...
UncategorizedThe Commons: Swallow this impressive-sounding number and call your doctor in the morningRead Tony Clement’s lips: "six million doses"
UncategorizedSee, it’s not so badGlen Pearson has pleasant conversations with MPs from other parties. And such as it is this is considered noteworthy.