MPs fuss over obscene gesture

OTTAWA - Obscene gestures in the House of Commons had the Liberals and Tories at each other's throats Wednesday, with the opposition calling for the heads of a pair of MPs for bad behaviour.

The schoolyard-style spat was sparked by rude gestures made by Conservatives Jacques Gourde and Pierre Poilievre during a vote on a motion to protect Canadian dairy products on Tuesday night.

While both MPs later apologized, the Liberals remained miffed, and demanded Prime Minister Steven Harper sanction Gourde and Poilievre who are parliamentary secretaries to the agriculture minister and the Treasury Board president, respectively.

'' these actions were not simply insulting to Parliament, but showed contempt and disrespect for all Canadians in this institution,'' Liberal Leader Bill Graham said.

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LOL, not earthshaking news but it certainly prods me to start watching Question Period, etc, again. I quit watching when Harper was elected as I really don't like wasting good food and Harper makes me too nauseous.

to the WH, so goes Harper's own ridiculous promise.

Did you see Cheryl Gallant? mouthing to one of the MP's to "Fuck off"? Nice Christian girl, isn't she? A bona fide c-word.

tubes. I found it interesting the article doesn't say to whom the gesture was made, who, in the opposition, was speaking and what did they say to generate the obscene gesture. The debate was about "a motion to protect Canadian dairy products on Tuesday night.", geez, if a debate on this merits the uproar, what kind of response would a budget bill that cuts funding to aboriginal groups from the Kelowna Accord generate.....oh....right....nobody said a word, did a thing, no one even voted.

I *hope* that Harper is going to discipline his wayward MP's, but it guess that may me dreaming. This is isn't fucking highschool, behaviour like this in the House of Communes is just unnacceptable.