Tom Parkin: In two Liberal ridings, MPs who should have been forced to resign seem intent to hold on until January, when byelections may be off the table
Under heavy fire, a key Liberal voice on changing how we vote defends the government’s approach to electoral reform
Immigration Minister Chris Alexander is up against his arch-enemy Mark Holland. It’s a fight everyone’s watching.
Speaking in the House before the vote to eliminate the long-gun registry last week, Conservative MP Candice Hoeppner recalled how she had introduced similar legislation in the last Parliament. She then proceeded to gloat.
Didn’t somebody once say something about reason over passion?
The final humiliation: a cash bar
The CBC talks to Mark Holland on his exit from Ottawa.
From their scrum yesterday, Michael Ignatieff and Mark Holland explain the Liberal side’s decision to oppose Bill S-10.
A statement from Conservative backbencher Phil McColeman, tabled shortly before Question Period this afternoon.
The Conservatives are rather critical of Liberal MP Mark Holland, but it’s apparently just business.
Conservative backbencher Brent Rathgeber looks to the United States, seemingly to explain his government’s approach to crime.
I wasn’t in the House this afternoon on account of other commitments, but I’m told that shortly after Question Period, Speaker Peter Milliken rose to rule on a point of order previously raised by Liberal Derek Lee. Mr. Lee complained last month that a statement by Conservative MP Phil McColeman should have been ruled out of order as a personal attack on Liberal Mark Holland. That the time allotted for statements by members—15 minutes each day normally reserved for noting charitable causes, the accomplishments of constituents and such—was being used to launch partisan attacks was identified as a problem last March by Speaker Milliken, a problem he attempted to addresses with limited success.