Question Period’s all the people have, it should be passionate

Any outburst, any spontaneous dissent, is to be smothered in the name of decorum. There is no sense 8.9 million people voted opposition to raise hell.

Question Period was over and a Cabinet minister told a reporter, "Pretty quiet in there." No heckling, no backtalk, no unruly protest. "A good start," he called it. In the House the minister of labour spent much of Question Period filing her nails and chewing ice cubes. The country is in the grip...

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