Re: [NTLK] We're Idiots

From: Peter Cameron (pdwc_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: Fri May 16 2003 - 08:01:19 PDT


on 5/16/03 10:23 AM, Eric L. Strobel at fyzycyst_at_comcast.net wrote:
> Not the news. In the States, on one of the C-SPAN channels they broadcast
> that weekly session of Parliment where the PM shows up and has to field
> questions/respond to tirades/etc.
    Question Period. It's a daily ritual in the Canadian Parliament. Members
use the time to ask nasty questions of the government. They can be answered
by the Prime Minister or the Cabinet Minister (ir)responsible for that
portfolio. Generates much ranting and general nastiness.

Peter

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