FIRST READING: From 'blatherskite' to 'pompous ass,' Canadian politicians used to be better at swearing

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An f\u002Dbomb just doesn\u0027t quite have the gravitas of accusing your opponent of being a \u0022dim\u002Dwitted saboteur\u0022

of Liberal MP Alexis Pierre Caron, who threw it at a Progressive Conservative opponent after the Tory accused him of nepotism. Specifically, Louis-Joseph Pigeon implied in a 1960 debate that Caron’s nephew had gotten a high-level job at the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation thanks to some string-pulling from his uncle.

The word refers to someone who speaks at length without making much sense. Despite being an excellent insult for any parliament, its usage died out in Canada right around the time of the Great Depression. But theof the word undoubtedly belongs to Liberal Benjamin Russell. After hearing the Minister of Militia Sam Hughes deliver a speech defending a military officer accused of misconduct, Russell declared the address “a medley of blatherskite and rhodomontade.

Interestingly, the last parliamentary utterance of blatherskite occurred in 1998 from none other than Newfoundland’s John Crosbie, whose House of Commons speeches were particularly laced with old-timey insults .Article contentThis one got thrown around several times in the 1960s, when “ass” would have been better understood as a reference to a donkey rather than a human posterior. The NDP’s Harold Winch was arguably responsible for the most cold-blooded utterance of the insult.

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