Jun. 14th, 2006

A rounds of applause for the Canadian parliament of the 1970s. This isn't the first time I've stumbled across one of their ill-tempered exchanges preserved in their unblushing version of Hansard, but it is the first time I've remembered to reproduce any of it here. A great deal of the archaic and undue deference that persists in the Lords like a bad smell would swiftly evaporate if noble Lords regularly addressed each other like ( this )