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… are fortunate enough to be able to relive it, in almost realtime, via the ITQ archives:

Liveblogging the Procedure and House Affairs Committee: Filibuster ahoy! (February 5, 2008)

Liveblogging PROC: We’ll stop blogging when he stops talking – the return of the killer filibuster (February 7, 2008)

Liveblogging PROC: Bustafila! Round Three Macleans.ca Blog Central (February 12, 2008)

Liveblogging PROC: His point – and he *does* have one … (February 14, 2008)

Liveblogging PROC: Is this the end of a very Goodyear? (March 4, 2008)

Liveblogging PROC – We’ll leave a candle in the window, Gary (March 6, 2008)

Another possibly relevant section of the Standing Orders (emphasis added):

“… Within five days of the receipt, by the clerk of a standing committee, of a request signed by any four members of the said committee, the Chair of the said committee shall convene such a meeting provided that forty-eight hours’ notice is given of the meeting. For the purposes of this section, the reasons for convening such a meeting shall be stated in the request.”

But wait! What if the committee doesn’t have a chair, because – well, we won’t get into exactly why it doesn’t have a chair. It just doesn’t. Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown. Anyway, I’m not sure what the scenario would be for bringing back a committee without going through the chair, but it can’t be impossible, can it? I mean, that would mean the government could just shut down every single Conservative-chaired committee, and that just seems awfully undemocratic. Tyrannical, even.

(Originally liveblogged on March 6, 2008)

(originally liveblogged on March 4, 2008)

(originally liveblogged on February 14, 2008)

(originally liveblogged on February 12, 2008)

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(originally liveblogged on February 5, 2008)