And like a lot of those Canadians, I was appalled by the tub-thumping tone of the closing debate — the way the government bench seemed determined to treat this as a ‘win’, rather than the most solemn and serious step a government can take. Government members jumped to their feet, smiling and cheering, as the prime minister rose to vote. The usual sequence of ridiculous Commons stunts followed — the thumbs-up gestures, the cat-calls. When Speaker Andrew Scheer rose to announce the motion’s passage, the government benches erupted in cheers and triumphant laughter. If you hadn’t known better, you wouldn’t have thought this was a vote about a war. You might have assumed we were shaving another point off the GST. – Colin MacDonald
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 13:37:26 +0000
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