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Reader appalled by House of Commons decorum
Posted on September 30, 2024 by Taber TimesI attended an evening with our Town Council just recently. Apart from the subjects that were discussed, the most impressive reactions to comments and questions from the floor were the manner in which our councillors reacted. At that meeting and meetings of full council I have attended, proper decorum among councillors, administration and staff was most evident.
Contrast that with the behaviour of our MPs during Question Period. We see little proper decorum or respect for one another when questions are put forth and answered by the party in power. Other things that gall me are the general manners evidenced by all MPs when they pound their desks, boo, murmur or in other ways express their response to what is being questioned and answered. Have our representatives at Ottawa never heard these sayings, “We can disagree without being disagreeable,” or “Do unto others as we would have them do unto us.”
We try to teach our own children at home and in the school classroom acceptable behaviour and respect for one another. It’s nullified to a great degree by our leaders at the top of our country’s government. Leaders, set an example worthy of following for us and our children.
Ray Sheen, Taber
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Ray as long as we have Reformers trying to pretend that they are Conservatives this is what you will get. While Pierre Poilievre is sounding more and more like Donald Trump. Proving there is nothing conservative about him, he wants to axe the Carbon Tax that Conservatives created in Alberta to help the oil industry show the world that we do care about Global Warming and want to try to help do something about it, he wants to tell the world we don’t care, when they do care. When as an MP under Reformer Stephen Harper they refused to implement it and Obama refused to approve our Keystone XL Pipeline and Albertans lost billions in oil wealth. Obama wasn’t stupid he knew we need to do something about Global warming. These Reformers don’t care.
When Trudeau and Notley worked with our oil industry and implemented it these Reformers began spreading their lies about it. Yet 27 countries have adopted it and know it works. The disgusting thing about Poilievre is the fact that the Rebates are putting money in the pockets of many low income families and seniors and he doesn’t care that it’s actually helping out and as it increases in costs so will the Rebates helping out even more. Our oil executives knew that it would.
While these Southern Alberta MP Reformers had nothing but praise for the Criminal Convoy Truckers that only 27% of Canadians supported and only 10% of their fellow truckers, they ignored the fact that they were stock piling assault rifles to kill police officers at Coutts and didn’t care about the $65 million cost to taxpayers that they created. Nor did they show the citizens of Ottawa or police officers involved any respect. While Poilievre bashed Trudeau for using the Emergency Act to put a stop to this insanity, our police officer friends praised Trudeau for how it was handled. The big question was “How long was Poilievre and his MPs prepared to let it go on and how much more of taxpayers money were they willing to waste, showing that there is nothing conservative about them”.