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 :)
Charlie Feldman
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This is how I picture MPs reacting while reading my book, "Unparliamentary", officially out in 10 days! :-P
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.
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."
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."
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
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.
And another foreign unparliamentary headline from the archives (1922)
Stink bomb hurled in a parliament / uproar and free fight / guilty deputy flees from Czechoslovakia
2/2 After all, this poo-litical attack was arguably a smear campaign!
Okay… enough with the crappy jokes
… unless you like that sort of thing, in which case the book launch is one week from today! www.canada.ca/en/library-a...
