Lover of legislatures & law! Practicing parliamentary counsel here to follow scholarship on legislative institutions. Views are personal, misinformed too.
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Unparliamentary: Tales from Canada’s Colourful Parliamentary Past
The book: utppublishing.com/doi/book/1…
The book launch - June 18th in Ottawa: eventbrite.ca/e/book-launch-…
Excited to speak later today on this technical legislation panel and tell the story of the time a Canadian government said something would cost $500k, enacted the law, then discovered after commencement that it would cost $50-75 million. They tried a legislative control+z…
On this day in Canadian parliamentary history - October 30, 2006: The Speaker declines to get involved in the big controversy over whether the Minister of Foreign Affairs referred to another MP (his ex-girlfriend) as a “dog” in the House.
Living my best life by attending the International Conference on Legislation and Law Reform!
Legislation needs, assemble!
Out at dinner in DC with a female friend. She was very excited when I came back from the restroom to tell me that in my brief absence the waiter came by to assure her that she could do better.
Working on the next edition of the book. Not sure about this late-breaking Senate committee contribution…
Got to visit @cspan!! Dreams come true!
I don’t think they’re going to run my Halloween-themed « It’s the great budget reconciliation, Charlie Brown! » but I did pitch it!
Today in Canadian parliamentary history - October 28, 1873: One MP claims the incriminating letter is in his desk. But his desk is locked. As reported (image), he's handed a dozen keys - none fit. "Amid a storm of laugher and cries of 'Stolen'" he leaves the House.
What do you mean “It’s Competition Bureau night at the theatre in Ottawa”?
@CompBureau @MattyChiasson
📣📣📣 Attention Canadian doctoral students who study Parliament - the Manon Tremblay Doctoral Fellowship is now receiving applications! @CSPG_GCEP cspg-gcep.ca/pdf/2026Doctora…
@cpsa_acsp
On this day in Canadian parliamentary history – October 27, 1949: An MP begins House proceedings by celebrating another MP’s accomplishment: Winning best Jersey cattle exhibitor at the Ottawa winter fair….
On this day in Canadian parliamentary history - October 26, 1987: “The word is ‘hypocrisy’ not ‘high-pocrisy’”… the Hansard version of you say po-tato and I say pa-tato
🦇🕸️🌙 On this day in Canadian parliamentary history - October 25, 2011: The Commons Speaker finds that “goblin” is not parliamentary. 🎃👻
On this day in Canadian parliamentary history - October 24, 1991: The Senate’s Internal Economy committee meets in public, reportedly for the first time in the institution’s history.
Today in Canadian parliamentary history - October 23, 1979: The historic Rideau Club across from Parliament burns. Papers tell us that thousands gathered on the Hill to watch the "spectacular" fire because it was the only exciting thing happening in Ottawa on a Tuesday night.
Sometimes I think about when PM Harper met the winners of « Occupation Double » and laugh while imagining what the scenario note must have said…
Delighted to see my book "Unparliamentary" in the November Literary Review of Canada written up under the fine pen of former Globe and Mail national affairs columnist Jeffrey Simpson :-) reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202…
Parliamentary Christmas sweater from the UK cost an extra $21 to get through customs?!? That’s the real war on Christmas!!!!
