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Farewell to Quebec

Since <a href="http://www2.macleans.ca/2014/01/28/andrew-scheer-on-question-period/" target="_blank">explaining</a> his approach to Question Period, Andrew Scheer has intervened twice to cut off questions.
On Tuesday, he stopped <a href="http://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/1/28/thomas-mulcair-4/" target="_blank">this query</a> from Thomas Mulcair. And yesterday, he stopped <a href="http://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/1/29/bryan-hayes-1/" target="_blank">this query</a> from Conservative MP Bryan Hayes.
In the moment, I thought he might&#8217;ve been within his rights and privileges to cut off <a href="http://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/1/29/lawrence-toet-1/" target="_blank">this question</a> as well, but you can also see how tricky it is to draw lines around what is or is not the proper wording of a question.

House of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer stands during question period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday November 29, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

The Scheer crackdown

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