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Housefather continues Cuzner’s annual holiday convention, says ‘who knew that Cuzner’s Christmas poem tradition would be assumed by a Jew’

Plus, the Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Young Adult Literature shortlist announced, and Liberal MP Sean Fraser's newborn daughter dies.

Liberal MP Anthony Housefather, pictured, has continued former Liberal MP Rodger Cuzner's annual political take on the poem, Twas the Night Before Christmas. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

December 16, 2019

Before the House bid adieu for the holidays last week, Liberal MP Anthony Housefather gave MPs in the Commons a treat with a Christmas-inspired political roast. For years, former Liberal MP Rodger Cuzner had been delighting the House with his Canadian political and annual version of...

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