Speech sparks criticism from Pierre Poilievre, who said Fergus was interrupting ‘sacred’ time of Question Period
Speaker Greg Fergus is putting MPs on warning that he will use all powers available to him to maintain order and decorum in the House of Commons if they can't do it themselves. Fergus makes a statement before Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Oct. 18.Greg Fergus, the new Speaker of the House of Commons, delayed the start of Question Period on Wednesday to deliver a speech on the importance of decorum.
He denounced “boorish and rude” heckling designed to intimidate, insult or drown out others, and a trend toward ideas and thoughts expressed “in provocative terms” that harm the necessary collegiality of work. And he cited a growing tendency for MPs to make pointed criticisms “in a way that is unnecessarily personal, and designed to denigrate, bully, elicit an emotional reaction, or to attack the integrity of the person,” as well as bringing what he called a “toxicity” to the proceedings.
Mr. Fergus, who has served as parliamentary secretary to Mr. Trudeau as well as a parliamentary secretary to the Health Minister and Treasury Board President, was elected eight years ago as the Quebec MP for Hull-Aylmer.over the furor created by his inviting Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old constituent in his riding, to the House of Commons for a Sept. 22 speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Mr. Rota hailed Mr. Hunka as a Ukrainian hero of the Second World War.
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