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Fan of legislatures and legislation! Past President, Canadian Study of Parliament Group. Co-Chair, CIAJ Legislative Drafting Section. All views personal and most likely uninformed :)
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Had a delightful time talking about the book with @jdmstewart.bsky.social on Witness to Yesterday: The Champlain Society Podcast on Canadian History! Take a listen-- Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0cZb... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/u... YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeVQ...
And now, an excerpt from the Senate Debates, 18th Parliament, 3rd Session: A Minister of the Crown should not go around the corridors of this building calling a senator a "damn big windbag."
On this day in Canadian parliamentary history - June 11, 1938: Prime Minister Mackenzie King unveils a bronze plaque honouring the five Alberta women who fought for women to sit in the Senate (today called the 'Famous Five'). The two then still living - Irene Parlby and Nellie McClung - attended.
This is how I picture MPs reacting while reading my book, "Unparliamentary", officially out in 10 days! :-P
And another foreign unparliamentary headline from the archives (1922) Stink bomb hurled in a parliament / uproar and free fight / guilty deputy flees from Czechoslovakia
On this day in Canadian parliamentary history - June 13, 2013: Many jokes (and props) find themselves in the Chamber - particularly during a raucous Question Period - after Opposition Leader Tom Mulcair fails to stop for parliamentary security en route to the House.
On this day in Canadian parliamentary history - June 12, 1923: The Senate sitting begins with the reading of a telegram conveying assurances from BC's attorney general that comments in a letter he sent were "not intended to cast any imputation or reflection on the Senate" 1/2
2/2 The letter in question included lines like "I would loathe to believe that any member of the Senate or House of Commons could be debauched, but to be forewarned is to be forearmed."
When poop was hurled in the Canadian House of Commons by a woman in the gallery, the headlines were boring - “Excrement hits member in Commons”, “MP dung in by woman”. I feel like today’s headline writers could come up with something better. 1/2