Category Archives: Ken Epp Awards

Ken Epp Award Nominees: Pat Martin and Andrew Saxton

Well, it’s been a while since we last had a rhetorically silly exchange in Question Period. This particular one is from yesterday’s Question Period: Mr. Pat Martin (Winnipeg Centre, NDP): Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives are deluded if they think that … Continue reading

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Ken Epp Award Nominee: Megan Leslie

I suppose the New Democrat member for Halifax has a lot to learn about setting rhetorical traps, if this exchange from yesterday is anything to go by: Ms. Megan Leslie (Halifax, NDP): Mr. Speaker, last Friday, the Minister of Fisheries … Continue reading

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Ken Epp Award Nominees: Pat Martin and John Baird

You may have seen something in the news about Parliament debating zombie invasions. Well, here’s the exchange, from yesterday’s Question Period: Mr. Pat Martin (Winnipeg Centre, NDP): Mr. Speaker, I rise today to salute the Centers for Disease Control in … Continue reading

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Ken Epp Award Nominee: Brad Butt

This has got to be one of the more bizarre linkages that a Tory backbench has ever made, connecting last Sunday’s Super Bowl power failure to the fake NDP carbon tax. Still, the Conservative member for Mississauga-Streetsville has a go … Continue reading

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Ken Epp Award Nominee: Denis Blanchette

I don’t know about the rest of you, but to me there’s something vaguely disturbing when an MP makes a plea on behalf of a hypothetical person. Case in point: the New Democrat member for Louis-Hébert: Mr. Speaker, John is … Continue reading

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