If you’ve tuned in to question period and wondered if that is really how the elected member of Parliament representing you in Ottawa should be acting, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s new House leader is trying to change that. “For me, my objective is that when school groups come into question period and watch question period, they’re going to be proud of what they see,” new Government House Leader Karina Gould told CTV News in an interview.
While opinion differs on when question period became the kind of spectacle and display of partisan furor that’s become perfectly clip-able for social media, every year it seems to be remarked that it’s only getting worse. All sides share some blame, from what can sometimes be inflammatory questions lobbed across the aisle, to the string of buzzwords and vague phrases often offered back in the place of answers. n the last few months of the spring sitting, House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota has interjected numerous times during the raucous hour-long mid-afternoon exercise, meant to be about accountability, to remind MPs about how they should comport themselves.
“What part of ‘while somebody is speaking, we sit quietly and listen’ do we not understand?” he asked on May 31.
Now, newly-minted in the key legislative management role, Gould is pledging to ensure that Liberal MPs and ministers follow through on presenting a “reasonableness” in the chamber…
Source: ctvnews.ca
