Good news from Ottawa (you don’t hear that a lot do you?), as our MPs take a step towards creating rules to force themselves to act like grown ups:<\/p>\n
MPs agree to curb question period shenanigans<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
OTTAWA \u2014 A strong majority of Canada’s federal politicians, stung by their own embarrassing behaviour in Parliament, have decided it’s time to cut back on the shenanigans of question period.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday evening, MPs voted by a 235-44 margin to pass a motion proposed by Conservative MP Michael Chong designed to elevate the deteriorating decorum in the daily 45-minute session.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Chong’s proposals<\/a> now go to committee, where MPs will spend 6 months hitting each other over the head as they study and debate them.<\/p>\n
For more on reforming QP, the Public Policy Forum has some ideas<\/a> up on their website, and a poll<\/a> showing what Canadians think about QP<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Good news from Ottawa (you don’t hear that a lot do you?), as our MPs take a step towards creating rules to force themselves to act like grown ups: MPs agree to curb question period shenanigans OTTAWA \u2014 A strong majority of Canada’s federal politicians, stung by their own embarrassing behaviour in Parliament, have decided […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}