Bloc motion to remove ‘archaic’ prayer in House defeated by Conservative, Liberal MPs

Conservative, Liberal, and NDP MPs panned the Bloc’s use of its opposition day motion as wasting ‘an entire day’ in Parliament on a matter they said Canadians did not care about.

Liberal and Conservative MPs helped defeat a Bloc Québécois motion to scrap the prayer at the beginning of each sitting. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

May 11, 2022

A Bloc Québécois motion failed to get the votes needed to end the practice of the Speaker reading a prayer before the House of Commons sits every day. Only 56 MPs voted in favour of the motion on May 11,

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