{"id":12017,"date":"2023-12-06T16:57:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T21:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/?p=12017"},"modified":"2023-12-06T16:57:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T21:57:05","slug":"qp-an-ejection-stunt-among-the-scripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/2023\/12\/06\/qp-an-ejection-stunt-among-the-scripts\/","title":{"rendered":"QP: An ejection stunt among the scripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prime minister was present, but would only be for the leaders\u2019 round today instead of his usual Wednesday practice of taking all questions, as he needed to head to the \u00c9cole Polytechnique vigil in Montreal. His deputy was absent, as was Jagmeet Singh, who has not been seen in person for over a week now. Pierre Poilievre led off in French, and he noted the day for remembrance of \u00c9cole Polytechnique before pivoting this to questions of children who are asking Santa Claus for food, and asked if the prime minister \u201cordered his senators\u201d to vote against Bill C-234. Trudeau read a statement about Polytechnique and gender-based violence. Poilievre then raised a question in the Senate asked of the president of CHMC, who said there wasn\u2019t a plan to add 40,000 housing units and then plugged his \u201cdocumentary.\u201d Trudeau dismissed the chasing of clicks and praised their housing strategy. Poilievre returned to English to repeat the same question, but called the CMHC the \u201cprime minister\u2019s housing agency,\u201d which is risible. Trudeau read a script that Poilievre chases clicks, and uses homeless people as props. Poilievre blamed Trudeau for causing homelessness, and accused him of attempting to \u201cmanipulate and intimidate\u201d senators to vote against Bill C-234. Trudeau quipped that the only farming Poilievre cares about is rage-farming. Poilievre pilloried him for reading talking points from junior staffers, and repeated his same accusation. Trudeau, with a script in his hand, says that Poilievre is so ideologically opposed to climate action that he wants to take parliament hostage, and accused Poilievre of only being fuelled by the sound of his own voice.<\/p>\n<p>Yves-Fran\u00e7ois Blanchet led for the Bloc, and he railed about Catherine Tait\u2019s leadership at CBC\/Radio-Canada and the cuts being made. Trudeau read some scripts about cancelling Harper cuts and their work on the Online News Act. Blanchet hoped that they would not conclude that Liberal cuts were better than Conservative ones and took another swipe at Tait. Trudeau reminded him that they will look at the protection of French as part of CBC\/Radio-Canada\u2019s mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay Mathyssen rose for the NDP, and read statistics on gender-based violence before accusing the government of cutting funds to women\u2019s shelters (which is not actually the case). Trudeau read a script about supporting shelters and working with provinces and territories on strategies to eliminate gender based violence. Lori Idlout accused the government of deliberately keeping Indigenous women in violent situations by not adequately funding housing. Trudeau read a script about co-developing housing strategies and solutions, while they have already helped build and renovate 30,000 housing units for Indigenous communities.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Round two, and Melissa Lantsman read some of the slogans and talking points about Bill C-234 (van Koeverden: The only senators that sit in a caucus are Conservatives and a third of them didn\u2019t vote on this bill yesterday), Marilyn Gladu read her own script on C-234 (Gould: Your senators were found to have breached privilege by intimidating other senators; You should ask your own senators why they didn\u2019t show up to vote), and G\u00e9rard Deltell made the same accusations in French (Gould: The only party trying to take money from the poor are Conservatives because cancelling the carbon price will make most people worse off).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lantsman threatens to keep sitting for three weeks if the government doesn\u2019t repeal the carbon price.<br \/>That\u2019s hilarious. There are fewer than eight sitting days left, and they won\u2019t even last that long because Poilievre\u2019s own MPs will revolt. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/QP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#QP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dale Smith (@journo_dale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/journo_dale\/status\/1732485544414691454?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reading the same slogan-filled script over and over again is really not illuminating. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/QP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#QP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NmKlx2OWYX\">pic.twitter.com\/NmKlx2OWYX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dale Smith (@journo_dale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/journo_dale\/status\/1732488277985239439?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mario Simard raised the 2000 meetings with oil and gas lobbyists over the past two years (Wilkinson: We meet with everyone including green groups to have important conversations), Monique Pauz\u00e9 read the same question (Wilkinson: Same answer, plus the reminder of methane regulations).<\/p>\n<p>Chris Warkentin read another script on Bill C-234 (van Koeverden: There are no Liberal senators and Conservative senators didn\u2019t vote, and hey, economics show that 94 percent of households receive more back than they pay; Farmers are on the front line of climate change, and wheat yields are down because of yields), Damien Kurek read his own script (MacAulay: You don\u2019t have a climate plan). Kurek then called the prime minister a liar, and was expelled from the Chamber for the day.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kurek says the PM lied, and keeps repeating it. <br \/>d\u2019Entrement says he know full well he can\u2019t use the word, and gives him a chance to retract it. <br \/>Kurek doesn\u2019t.<br \/>d\u2019Entrement gives him one more opportunity. <br \/>Kurek refuses. <br \/>d&#39;Entrement names him and he kicked out for the day. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/QP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#QP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dale Smith (@journo_dale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/journo_dale\/status\/1732488981995041092?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bonita Zarrillo worried about people with disabilities and demanded the Disability Benefit be released immediately (Khera: We need to make sure we get this right, so I want more people to participate in consultations), and Heather McPherson accused the government of being cowardly for not calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (Joly: The cycle of violence will not ensure Israel\u2019s long-term security and the price of justice cannot be the lives of innocent Palestinians).<\/p>\n<p>Round three saw yet more scripts being read about Bill C-234 (Gould: There are no Liberal senators and your senators didn\u2019t show up to vote; Rodriguez: The federal carbon price doesn\u2019t apply in Quebec; We don\u2019t have any senators and yours didn\u2019t show up to vote; Duclos: Our system puts more money into the pockets of Canadians, and your leader voted against the 9000 families in your riding who get the Canada Child Benefit; van<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Koeverden: Crop yields were down because of climate change; MacAulay: Farmers always ask me why you guys don\u2019t have a plan; Virani: Some nondescript pabulum;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Wilkinson: You should stop misleading people and read the University of Calgary economics report on the real impact of the carbon price on families). There were also questions on the Afghanistan war monument (Petitpas Taylor: Those surveyed preferred this version), more spending for climate mitigation for First Nations (Sajjan: I meet these communities and we are going to get this right), and Sudanese families looking to expand family definitions for immigration purposes (Miller: We are looking at options).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stephanie Kusie is shouting someone about \u201cthe fix was in, Karina!\u201d I\u2019m guessing this is something about Gould pointing out Conservative senators not showing up to vote? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/QP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#QP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dale Smith (@journo_dale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/journo_dale\/status\/1732490938797130197?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The same script, over and over. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/QP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#QP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AWuFB7sRC0\">pic.twitter.com\/AWuFB7sRC0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dale Smith (@journo_dale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/journo_dale\/status\/1732493499960787290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Overall, I would say that Poilievre\u2019s ten-second mention of \u00c9cole Polytechnique at the very beginning, but using that to preface some more of his slogans and talking points was a bit disrespectful to the day. And most of the day was just more of the same clip-gathering, with the exception of Damien Kurek\u2019s premeditated stunt of calling the prime minister a liar about the independence of the Senate, which was deliberately designed to get him kicked out of the Chamber (though I note that the Deputy Speaker, Chris d\u2019Entrement, only named him for the day and didn\u2019t say he would\u2019t be recognised until he apologised and withdrew the remarks, which is important). It was clearly a stunt\u2014it was clipped and on his socials within thirty minutes of it happening, but this is what the current crop of MPs has debased Parliament to being\u2014just a clip factory, whether in the Chamber or in committee. Our democracy is in serious trouble, but they\u2019re just going to keep rage-farming while it burns. Note that I&#8217;m also not unconvinced that part of Kurek&#8217;s stunt was to show that d&#8217;Entrement can be tough with Conservatives for when they hope they can get him to run again for the job, in the event that Fergus is removed from the post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This was a premeditated stunt, done solely for his socials. <br \/>This is how MPs our debasing Parliament these days, and they shouldn\u2019t be able to look themselves in the mirror for this kind of behaviour. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uLAcFyTCM0\">pic.twitter.com\/uLAcFyTCM0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dale Smith (@journo_dale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/journo_dale\/status\/1732508216456626270?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sartorially speaking, snaps go out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourcommons.ca\/Members\/en\/peter-fragiskatos(88827)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Fragiskatos<\/a> for his tailored dark grey three-piece suit over a crisp white shirt with a matching pocket square and a light purple tie, and to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourcommons.ca\/Members\/en\/anita-anand(96081)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anita Anand<\/a> for a pink blazer and collared shirt over black slacks. Style citations go out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourcommons.ca\/Members\/en\/ginette-petitpas-taylor(88364)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ginette Petitpas Taylor<\/a> for a belted dark denim shirt-dress, and to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourcommons.ca\/Members\/en\/darren-fisher(88323)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Darren Fisher<\/a> for his powder blue jacket over a dark blue pebble-patterned shirt and black slacks with no tie. Dishonourable mention goes out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourcommons.ca\/Members\/en\/anna-roberts(105191)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anna Roberts<\/a> for a mustard sweater\/jacket with tasseled fringes over a dark blue top and black slacks.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prime minister was present, but would only be for the leaders\u2019 round today instead of his usual Wednesday practice of taking all questions, as he needed to head to the \u00c9cole Polytechnique vigil in Montreal. 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