A Conservative MP stands to ask a question of the government
Tag Archives: Leon Benoit
The Backbench Spring: Will there be real questions now?
Brent Rathgeber hopes to stand and query the government
Reaction to the Speaker’s ruling
‘I think you’re going to see people rising’
Mark Warawa challenges the soul of our parliamentary democracy
A point of order that exposes the rot
‘These incidents appear to be homicides’
Conservative MPs Maurice Vellacott, Leon Benoit and Wladyslaw Lizon have written to the RCMP to request that some abortions be investigated as homicides.
Leon Benoit defers to the authority of Stephen Gordon
Conservative MP Leon Benoit seems to have issued a news release that uses the expertise of Stephen Gordon to bolster the case that the NDP is proposing a carbon tax.
Pro-life, but voting against Motion 312
Liberal MP Sean Casey says he’ll be voting no on Motion 312.
The farce is strong in these ones
Among the Conservaties who stood in the House this week and criticized the NDP’s stance on cap-and-trade were Kyle Seeback, Peter Van Loan, Gord Brown, Leon Benoit, Shelly Glover, Chris Warkentin, LaVar Payne, Gerry Ritz, Pierre Poilievre, Christian Paradis, Rick Dykstra, Randy Hoback, Pierre Lemieux, Ed Fast, Tony Clement and Andrew Saxton. These individuals—like Phil McColeman, Joe Preston and Ed Holder, who attacked the NDP last week—were all Conservative candidates in 2008 when the Conservative party platform included a commitment to pursue a continental cap-and-trade system.
‘Abortions by another name’
Following Brad Trost, Conservative backbencher Maurice Vellacott laments the government’s decision to partner with Planned Parenthood.
Au revoir, Chuck Strahl and John Cummins
The Transport Minister and the Conservative backbencher will also refrain from seeking reelection. Both were members of the Reform party’s class of 1993.