Time for a House of Commons revolution on civility, respect

Published May 19, 2008

I was very pleased to hear Liberal MP Glen Pearson's remarks about Parliamentary decorum during his brief interview with Susan Bonner on CBC Newsworld's Politics show on May 9.

It is disheartening to see supposedly intelligent and civilized people who are representing the people of Canada behave as if they were conceived in a barn but who wish to assume the title of "honourable" and to take for granted the respect of the...