OTTAWA — The fall sitting of the House of Commons featured non-confidence votes, plenty of partisan bickering, and very little actual passing of laws. 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.Number of days of the Conservative filibuster: 48Number of times an MP referred to the"common-sense Conservatives": 183
Number of mentions of"carbon tax Carney," the Conservatives' nickname for former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney: 111Number of times that was said by the Liberals: 209Number of times an MP declared"I wasn't even thinking about sex": 1 Number of times an MP was chastised for referring to former Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault as"cocaine Randy": 1Sarah Ritchie, The Canadian Press
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