Heard On The Hill

Two minutes in the box for elbowing, Prime Minister Trudeau

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau caused controversy in the House last week when he inadvertently elbowed NDP MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau while grabbing Conservative Whip Gord Brown to move a little faster for a Commons vote.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY DEREK ABMA

May 23, 2016

What are we going to do about this Trudeau kid and his behaviour in the House of Commons? As a third-party MP in 2011, Liberal MP Justin Trudeau called then environment minister Peter Kent "a piece of shit" during a House session, and now as prime minister last ...

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