While up in the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill today, who walks by and hops in the elevator going up? None other than Gilles Duceppe. Hah. Since watching the last federal election debates, I have an incredible amount of respect for that man.
Then we went to watch a rather entertaining Question Period. Jack Layton, Ignatieff, Harper, Duceppe, Dion et. al. were all there, bickering away at the best of their abilities. I loved it! I couldn’t help but laugh on how many of the MPs in the room spent most of the time with their head hunched over their BlackBerries.
It also makes me appreciate how lucky we are to actually be as close to our Prime Minister, or any of the MPs and party leaders while in the House. The fact that I can just decide to maybe check it out, and actually be in there two hours later is something really special. Try that in many other countries, and I’m afraid they’ll have some pretty big guns pointed at you before you even get near the building.
I have been twice to the question period…. once of which was on a friday… so utterly pointless!!! half werent even there. It was pointless bickering! but it was none the less very entertaining.
Posted by Val A on March 5th, 2009.