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Conservative Michelle Rempel Garner voted remotely for the first time on Sept. 28 with her furry companion. Screenshot via Parlvu

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BY NEIL MOSS

September 30, 2020

The House of Commons held its first hybrid in-person/remote recorded division on Sept. 28, with a vote on a Bloc Québécois change to a Conservative amendment to the House’s Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne. It wasn’t without a few hiccups. A world-wide Microsoft outage delayed t...

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