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The Scheer crackdown
The Speaker gets tough
House of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer stands during question period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday November 29, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Since explaining his approach to Question Period, Andrew Scheer has intervened twice to cut off questions.
On Tuesday, he stopped this query from Thomas Mulcair. And yesterday, he stopped this query from Conservative MP Bryan Hayes.
In the moment, I thought he might’ve been within his rights and privileges to cut off this question as well, but you can also see how tricky it is to draw lines around what is or is not the proper wording of a question.