NDP MP's baby expelled from House of Commons
February 8, 2012 - 10:34am
Yeah.
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Apparently Sana Hassainia, MP for Verchères—Les Patriotes, had to bring her 3-month-old baby into the House for a few minutes during a vote yesterday. The Speaker ordered her to remove the baby.
That's all I know. Updates to follow.
Who does the baby support for leader?
Quit kidding around.
ETA: Oh, I get it, you're saying this might belong in NDP Leadership 3793 thread?
Not uncommon, a few years ago my wife and I were asked to leave during question period because our infant daughter was starting to crying because she was hungry.
We were sitting in the public viewing area on the second floor.
We were not really disappointed about that, most MPs were either talking to themselves or typing messages on their Black Berries instead of listening to the questions and statements being made.
Now the Speaker's office is saying that the problem wasn't the baby, but a number of MPs who were snapping pictures.
However, that doesn't explain why the clerk approached Hassainia's and told her babies aren't allowed in the Chamber. And why the Speaker's office went on to say that the floor of the House is reserved for MPs.
ETA: By the way, the baby was not crying, or filibustering, or otherwise opposing the Harper agenda.
That's a relief, but it's best to head these problems off before they start. A baby? That's the first place anti-Harperism would hide.
I'll give you something to cry about.
NDP MP Sana Hassainia said she was called back quickly to a vote in the House Tuesday and had to bring her baby boy along after she couldn't locate her husband.
A clerk came up to her and said the Speaker wanted her to remove the baby from chamber, she said.
"The rules are that no strangers are allowed in," Hassainia told CBC News. "So certainly, yes, my baby is a stranger. But, it's not like he was a threat to national security."
She said the baby wasn't crying or making noise and remained in her arms until she was told to remove him.
Dig the baby's outfit. Catchfire, you have something like that for your little guy?
He was even wearing a tie on the floor. What more did the Speaker want?
Ok, mystery resolved. The little boy's name is Skander-Jack - named in memory of Jack Layton. I retract what I said above about the baby not opposing the Harper agenda. Catchfire, you were right on.
The Speaker's got yo baby.
You know, SJ, "Skander-Jack" rhymes with "Slumberjack", so be careful next time you decide to visit and observe democracy in action.
Oh, I get it, you're saying this might belong in NDP Leadership 3793 thread?
Well, the NDP is always talking about doing outreach to youth.
Yeah, but the last time I was there I was permitted to just stroll around and no one said a peep about it. The NDP were very nice to me actually, as I recall.
You know, SJ, "Skander-Jack" rhymes with "Slumberjack", so be careful next time you decide to visit and observe democracy in action.
I think it's code.
This is just what we need, an NDP love-child sex scandal! Woohoo!
House must be example of family-friendly workplace: women's groups
“Historically, women have been reluctant to get into politics partly because they are concerned about how they are going to manage with their work-family balance,” said Alexa Conradi, president of the Fédération des femmes du Québec.
“The system has to be more accommodating to women’s realities.”
Hey, have these groups forgotten the basic premise of conservative ideology?
Babies are great. Babies are wonderful and all women should have many many babies. Until you actually give birth to them. Then they must be invisible until they get their MBA and their first mortgage.
Hey, have these groups forgotten the basic premise of conservative ideology?
Babies are great. Babies are wonderful and all women should have many many babies. Until you actually give birth to them. Then they must be invisible until they get their MBA and their first mortgage.
So in other words, we should just send our children away for a few years to get SORASed?*
SORAS = Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome. For example, Abby is born in the year 2000. In 2005, the precocious 7-year-old discovers the man who raised her is not her biological father. In 2008, the rebellious 14-year-old moves in with her biological father only to be shocked when her adoptive father dies trying to save her nephew. In 2010, the tenacious 21-year-old becomes obsessed with her social status as an heiress.
How about introducing a private members bill to study the question of when life begins in the House of Commons?
Does it start at birth? At completion of potty training? At voting age? Or maybe certain MP's don't have lives at all...or at least they don't live like the rest of us.
Edited to add: I don't think there's any life at all in the Senate.
VICTORY!
MP and her baby welcome back in Commons after ‘misunderstanding’
“I think it was a misunderstanding,” said Hassainia, adding that Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer has reassured her that she can bring Skander-Jack — whose name also includes the Arabic version of Alexander — back in whenever she needs to.
She noted other MPs will be able to do the same.
“It will certainly happen again with the MPs we have,” Hassainia said. “We have many women who are at the age of creating a family, so it will happen again for sure.”
A spokeswoman for Scheer said booting the baby out of the room was never his intention.
Personally, I'll feel better when I see Scheer's remarks quoted verbatim, in writing, sealed and stamped. But overall, I think it's a good victory and a good message to employers and managers of public spaces.
Hee hee @ leftyinvestor. We should start a thread about Y & R.
I actually meant that the intervening 20-25 years from birth were meant for the children to shut up, grow up and assume their proper place in the oligarchy, but yours is much funnier.
Great news about the correction to the "misunderstanding", Unionist. The dinosaurs are embarassing themselves more each day, and this was a small and easy fix. Obviously it never should have happened in the first place, but whatev.
And can I suggest that new parents of all genders may find themselves in the company of unelected babies from time to time. Ya know?