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By leave
Does the honorable member (WD Clarke) have leave?
NO LEAVE!

Merry Christmas from Canada! Thanks to all the pages for bringing water, and to all the little people who help the legislative process, clerks and the seargeant at arms, who had a rough session, rougher than perhaps necessary. Much important legislation was passed and we look forward to the New Year!

Scouring the Hansard for mention of Red Rose Tea, something that could uplift the economy. Not a word. Pity. (Hats off to WD Clarke)

"...something of an oligarchical temper..."

Why would I give a shit what is said in a provincial Canadian parliament? Why do I keep picking up the book and reading it? Theory: universal attraction to dipshittery. Just as I today stopped editing a paper on Japanese fans when it told me that ceremonial fans are used in ceremonies, disgusted, but also marvelling at my species, Bursey's dipshits are compelling as they spout nonsense.

editing improvemnts are being made, but the bread machine had been removed. The parliament is not a bakery.

Citizens, calm yourselves. Our hon. member, not, you know, the slang, the hon., member from the Canadia region is currently considering incipient plans to, deliver, based on the factors and considerations of the factors, to deliver, and will not stop until the end, nor end before he has stopped.

Provincial parliament in Canada. Satire. Satire? I'm not so sure--the politicians are recognizably daft and petty. The citizens are in a condition of want. Economic downturn. Division by party lines.
Why is this compelling reading?
"...The member from Mt. Pleasant can go back to his oxygen tent now, his iron lung, whatever."

"Clean breasts all."

a spic and span parliament is a healthy parliament

We find that the presence of the Financial Officer within the offices concerned has a negative effect.