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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
October 19 - 24, 2007 - Liberal leader Stéphane Dion addressed the House of Commons and announced his intention to abstain from the vote on the government’s Speech from the Throne despite previous threats and objections to the proposed legislative agenda.
The tactic is known as a ‘whipped abstention’ because MPs are compelled to abstain from the vote or be expelled from the party caucus.
MacKay Editorial Cartoons: Laughter rains down on Dion
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November 1st, 2007
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November 8th, 2007
God this is so funny!
November 15th, 2007
Was the Ralph Goodale talking trash in the background to the NDP?
December 8th, 2007
Dion says that Canadians don’t want to have an election. He is right. He is also a Canadian.
January 14th, 2008
Ralph Goodale always talks trash (as most Liberals do). He has no ounce of integrity whatsoever.
February 20th, 2008
I love the cat calls againts the cock sucking liberals
April 8th, 2008
Hmmm…the Conservatives are not immune either. This is John Baird’s structure for his responses to opposition questions:
“This gov’t in taking action Mr Speaker in [this matter] the Liberals did nothing in [this matter] and we are getting the job done…”
Rarely does he ever answer the question…
April 20th, 2008
Who says politics is boring???
June 25th, 2008
I’m surprised that Harper didn’t just flat out thank Dion.