All Conservative MPs leave the chamber in protest after Fergus gave Poilievre multiple chances to withdraw comments calling Trudeau a ‘wacko’ and an ‘extremist’
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre rises during during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on April 29.
The incident started when Poilievre criticized what he called Trudeau’s refusal to crack down on drug overdoses.Speaker Greg Fergus, a Liberal, told Poilievre the comment was both unparliamentary and unacceptable and asked him four times to withdraw it. Poilievre said he would replace the word with “radical,” then that he would “simply withdraw and replace” the language with the term “extremist.
Immediately before the events, Trudeau had accused Poilievre of associating with far-right extremists and said a person who does so is not fit to be prime minister. “That is not responsible leadership. That is dangerous for democracy, it’s dangerous for Canadians,” he said. Ejections from the House are relatively rare. The speaker’s office was not immediately available to comment on the last time a leader of the official opposition had been booted out.Trudeau questions Poilievre’s judgment, says the Conservative Leader ‘will do anything to win’Create free account
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