Video coverage has surfaced online showing the Prime Minister of Canada
dragging another Member off the Parliament by the arm against his wish, and elbowing another in the process.
As the Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons was trying to set a vote
in motion on Wednesday for the House to consider how much time the House would
need to debate on the controversial assisted-death bill, it was suspected that
the opposition were covertly trying to prevent the House from proceeding with
the business of the day.
Several MP members of the minority parties, including
the leader of NDP Tom Mulcair, blocked a part of the aisle. Although they were
chatting, other MPs, including the Prime Minister thought otherwise. The Prime
Minister actually thought that the Whip of the opposition was attempting to
delay the commencement of the House`s business of the day.
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It is customary for the Whip of
the government and that of the opposition to enter the chamber together through
their respective sides of the centre aisle, bow to the speaker and then to each
other before taking their assigned seats. However, while the whips entered the
House together, both could not walk up to bow to the speaker together as the
opposition whip encountered MP members of the opposition along the centre aisle, thus prompting the
charismatic Prime Minister to offer a helping hand by “grabbing” MP Gord Brown
by the arm through the traffic of opposition MPs, and elbowing NDP MP Ruth
Ellen Brosseau in the process. Neither MP Brown nor MP Brosseau found the
action of the P.M pleasant. So did other MPs, especially those in the
opposition, although the Prime Minister, Mr Justin Trudeau felt the obstruction was an attempt to "block" the House from commencing its business of the day. According to the Trudeau, all he wanted to do was to get the opposition whip for a "double whip" in order to have the proceedings commenced.
The charismatic Prime Minister has however repeatedly apologised for the incident, stating
that “That intervention was not appropriate”. In addition to apologising on
more than four occasions on the floor of the House, the visibly contrite Prime
Minister has continuously expressed his contrition through his twitter handle.
source: globalnews
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