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This emotional video of a Conservative MP’s tearful apology will make you cry

Stephen Harper’s Parliamentary Secretary is sorry. How sorry?   When Conservative MP Paul Calandra stood up in the House of Commons on Friday to apologize for repeatedly responding to questions about Iraq with answers that had nothing to do with the topic, emotions started flowing. Here’s a remix with sad violin music:     

September 26, 2014

Stephen Harper’s Parliamentary Secretary is sorry.

How sorry?

 

When Conservative MP Paul Calandra stood up in the House of Commons on Friday to apologize for repeatedly responding to questions about Iraq with answers that had nothing to do with the topic, emotions started flowing.

Here’s a remix with sad violin music: 

 

 

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Speaker’s decision to continue letting government dodge questions proves unpopular

It hasn’t been a good week for House of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer. After a few bad days on Parliament Hill, the Speaker has actually managed to grab some attention away from Stephen Harper’s point man in Parliament, Paul Calandra.   The PM’s Parliamentary Secretary caused a collective face-palm after dodging very simple questions from the NDP […]

September 25, 2014

It hasn’t been a good week for House of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer.

After a few bad days on Parliament Hill, the Speaker has actually managed to grab some attention away from Stephen Harper’s point man in Parliament, Paul Calandra.

 

The PM’s Parliamentary Secretary caused a collective face-palm after dodging very simple questions from the NDP about the government’s troop deployment to Iraq. Instead, Calandra repeatedly declared his support for Israel.

Sheer’s response? He reiterated that he…

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