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The Commons: The silly and the hallowed

An hour and a half in the life of the House of Commons

Cultural barbaric practices here and there

NDP immigration critic Jinny Sims recently revealed that she is uncomfortable with the revised edition of the Welcome to Canada guide—a 146-page document compiled by Citizenship and Immigration Canada and presented last week by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney. Sims doesn’t care about the guide’s monarchist bent, or its omission of  “O Canada” lyrics. But she does take umbrage with the following passage:

The Commons: Should the federal government pay for a refugee claimant’s cancer treatment?

The Scene. Ralph Goodale stood with right hand in pocket, a piece of paper in his left hand, to read the indictment against his former assistant.

Happy Canada Day

Aaron Wherry on who said what on July 1