But for interested parties, there was this today on Twitter.
WARNING: My next series of tweets will deal w/ Mark Warawa's motion & his so-called qstn of priv. & why journos & pundits are overreacting.
— Thomas Hall (@ThomasHall17) April 3, 2013
That would be Thomas Hall who describes himself as 'retired House of Commons procedural clerk, Constitution nerd, and word nut dans les deux langues officielles'.
He made good on his threat with a series of tweets.
Warawa's motion on sex-selective abortion will get 1 hour of debate in HoC. So he does get to speak on it despite what some have said.
— Thomas Hall (@ThomasHall17) April 3, 2013
Having private mbrs' motions voted on at all is releatively new, so there was no *right* for MPs to move motions & force vote in HoC.
— Thomas Hall (@ThomasHall17) April 3, 2013
Journos like A. Coyne who said that Warawa's motion was clearly in order to be votable are wrong. W/ respect to Lib of Parl analyst who...
— Thomas Hall (@ThomasHall17) April 3, 2013
...advised Subcmtee of MPs who decide on votability, the analyst gave wrong advice. Motion violated criterion no. 1. Subcmtee had equal ...
— Thomas Hall (@ThomasHall17) April 3, 2013
...representation from each party & worked by consensus. No way PMO cld have made Subcmtee decide motion non-votable.
— Thomas Hall (@ThomasHall17) April 3, 2013
PMO *may* have influenced full cmtee on Procedure to reject Warawa's appeal of Subcmtee decision since majority on cmtee are Conservatives.
— Thomas Hall (@ThomasHall17) April 3, 2013
More likely is that majority on cmtee just didn't want to deal w/ abortion in any shape or form--policy for all 3 parties!
— Thomas Hall (@ThomasHall17) April 3, 2013
Now regardg Warawa's qstn of privilege, complaint, that he didn't get to make statement in HoC during Mbrs' Statemts. I think parties ...
— Thomas Hall (@ThomasHall17) April 3, 2013
...shldn't try to control what their mbrs say during that period, but ppl overreacted to O'Connor, CPC whip, comparing HoC to hockey game.
— Thomas Hall (@ThomasHall17) April 3, 2013
Frankly, not being allowed 2 speak during Mbrs' Statemts trivial compared to other control of party mbrs. No MP has right to make statmt.
— Thomas Hall (@ThomasHall17) April 3, 2013
@emmmacfarlane No MP has right to make a statemt b/c there's no not enough time allowed for it. Never has been. So selection has to be made.
— Thomas Hall (@ThomasHall17) April 3, 2013
Then Emmett MacFarlane got into it to disagree with Hall.
@emmmacfarlane W/ respect, you're confusing Private Mbrs Business w/ Govt Business. Under latter, HoC can express opinion on all kinds...
— Thomas Hall (@ThomasHall17) April 3, 2013
Hall provided a link to the records of the subcommittee meeting. Scroll down.
@emmmacfarlane See parl.gc.ca/HousePublicati…
— Thomas Hall (@ThomasHall17) April 3, 2013
In short, in the opinion of the retired House of Commons procedural clerk, the subcommittee was correct and Warawa and Coyne and MacFarlane are all just wanking.
Others are weighing in too. As deBeauxOs blogged earlier today, some are taking issue with the newly minted free-speech spin.
And here's another.
Warawa's Wank is about abortion. It is sexist and racist.
It is about targetting pregnant women from 'certain' communities and vilifying them for allowing themselves to be 'coerced' into abortion.
it is NOT about free speech.
3 comments:
I love this so much <3
Excellent follow-up. Thanks.
Touché.
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