What happened during the fall sitting of the House of Commons, by the numbers

The session that ended Dec. 17 will go down as one of the least productive in Canadian history, and possibly one of the most partisan.

A statue of former Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden is backed by the Confederation Building on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Number of bills that got royal assent: 3 (supplementary estimates, the GST holiday bill and an amendment to the National Parks Act to change land-use rules for the town of Jasper, Alta., after last summer’s devastating wildfire.Number of confidence motion votes the Liberals survived: 3Number of times an MP referred to the “common-sense Conservatives”: 183

Number of times an MP was chastised for referring to former Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault as “cocaine Randy”: 1

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