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The Backbench Top Ten
And now the debut of a new weekly feature here at Beyond the Commons: a wholly arbitrary ranking of the ten most worthy, or at least entertaining, MPs, excluding the Prime Minister, cabinet members and party leaders. A celebration of all that is great and ridiculous about the House of Commons. Exact criteria will take shape over time, points for now will be awarded on general competence and ability to amuse me.
The Commons: Huzzah, Mr. Ignatieff asks a question that is not entirely rhetorical
But never let it be said Parliament is no place for a Ringo joke
MPs rally around autism
To mark World Autism Awareness Day, Senator Jim Munson (below, right), and several MPs held a reception for the Canadian ASD Alliance, a group representing seven autism organizations.
Our secretly Irish anthem
The Conservatives made a minor fuss today about the New Brunswick school principal who decided—a year ago, mind you—to stop playing the national anthem before class each day.
‘It has a split personality, if I may say so’
Michael Ignatieff rose at the end of yesterday’s brief debate to a standing ovation from his side and a smattering of applause from the government benches. Various Conservatives then mocked the Bloc and NDP members for not showing similar enthusiasm.
The Commons: The mild voice of consensus
With the Throne Speech through, MPs returned to the House to lounge about before business began. Speaker Peter Milliken fiddled with the morning paper’s Sudoku. Veteran Affairs Minister Greg Thomson flipped through the New Yorker. The Prime Minister scrutinized a copy of the new seating chart, periodically looking up to see precisely where his least favourite members of the Liberal side were now seated.