Rhetorical art
Word clouds based on the members’ statements of Liberal and Conservative MPs during March.
Question Period
The Commons: ’We will continue to insist’
The Scene. To everyone’s infinite credit, Question Period passed today without a single reference to a bathroom, toilet, loo or...
The Commons: Smile and shrug
Tony Clement faces off against Michael Ignatieff
The Commons: The eternal shame of the Ivy Leaguer
Harvard is a stain Ignatieff might never wash away
Iggy v. The Carbon Tax v. Russ Hiebert
The Conservative backbencher asks a question during QP this morning. "Mr. Speaker, our government has always maintained that the...
The Commons: The prudence of pessimism
The Scene. Thomas Mulcair had tried to reason with the government. "According to StatsCan, of the 300,000 people who have lost...
The new next one
Don Martin anoints Lisa Raitt. Ms. Raitt has attracted a lot of attention as the fastest rising star in Stephen Harper’s...
The Commons: A morality play
Diane Finley is left to defend the government’s record on employment
Jason Kenney is impressed
Again, from his Twitter feed . Diane Finley is awesome in QP. She’s substative, on her brief, articulate in both languages.
A noted return
The Bloc’s Francine Lalonde, who is battling cancer, returned to the House today and received a standing ovation from all sides...