Last Parliament bitter, acrimonious, and longest minority government in history

'A tone of bitterness in Parliament and in the country matched only by the 1960s minority governments,' says Granatstein.

The 39th Parliament—in which Stephen Harper has attained a new record for the longest-running minority government in Canadian history—wasn't all nastiness, but it displayed bitterness and a general decay in Parliamentary decorum that hasn't been seen since the minority gove...

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