House of Commons Speaker Greg Fergus said before question period on Monday that he expects members of Parliament to behave better than they did last week, when an exchange between two party leaders got so heated one MP thought it may actually come to physical blows.
Fergus’s warning comes after NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh stepped out from behind his desk to shout at the Conservative leader last Thursday, when Pierre Poilievre called Singh a phoney and a fraud for his refusal to vote to bring down the Liberal government.
“Last time I was in this chair, there were a number of questions which were not relevant to the administration of government. There were words which fall outside of what’s acceptable, there was behaviour which was also outside of the parliamentary traditions,” Fergus said on Monday. He added that he hopes to have more to say later this week, in light of demands from MPs for more discipline in the House.
Later on in question period, Conservative MP Andrew Scheer claimed that Singh was trying to “pull off another stunt” and “fool Canadians” through a new carbon pricing position. Meanwhile, Singh said that the Liberals “promised a crackdown” on Loblaws that “turned out to be a letdown,” and Minister of Health Mark Holland replied by asking how the NDP were “going to stand up for Canadians” if they “can’t stand up to the Conservative Leader.”
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