Yesterday the Assistant Speaker spent a lot of time in the House hauling me over the coals for apparently using unparliamentary language. |
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What was being said was close to an imputation, and members cannot get around rules against unparliamentary language by circumlocution. |
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I ask that he withdraw and apologise also in respect of the unparliamentary remark be made about Mr Dail Jones when he opened his speech. |
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Perhaps the member would be kind enough to indicate what he thinks he said and if he used unparliamentary language, whether he would withdraw. |
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Mr. Speaker, during the cut and thrust of question period, as you have pointed out, the Minister of Industry used very unparliamentary language. |
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Of course there are a few words I will have to leave out because, while not being inappropriate, they are definitely unparliamentary. |
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If they behave in a fashion that is unbecoming or unparliamentary, members have options, and it's up to those members to take that action. |
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There are many terms both parliamentary and unparliamentary that we could apply to this kind of mean-spirited strategy. |
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Mr. Speaker, I would never knowingly show disrespect for the House of Commons by using language that I know to be unparliamentary. |
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I think upon review, Mr. Speaker, you would agree these remarks are in fact highly insensitive, inappropriate and unparliamentary. |
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Points of order may be made while another has the floor and when the question concerns the use of unparliamentary language. |
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An expression which is deemed to be unparliamentary today does not necessarily have to be deemed unparliamentary next week. |
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For all these reasons, it seems to me that we are faced here with a tactic that is unparliamentary and politically abusive. |
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Mr. Speaker, I point out that accusing another member of hypocrisy is itself unparliamentary. |
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Many other terms and expressions probably should be struck from the list of what is considered unparliamentary. |
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I do not know if this is unparliamentary or not, but it was a very brazen act. |
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We can find many quotes that contain all kinds of unparliamentary expressions that cannot be used in the House. |
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Accordingly, I am not inclined at this stage to rule the expression unparliamentary and demand that there be a withdrawal. |
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Latham had a reputation for erratic behaviour, not consulting his erstwhile colleagues and for some of the most unparliamentary language ever entered into Hansard. |
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I would not bring down to the House and read out some of the letters I have had on her, because I am sure they would be unparliamentary and ruled out of order. |
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Should a member persist in unparliamentary conduct, the Chair will be compelled to name them and submit their conduct to the judgment of the Convention. |
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An MNA who uses language that is unbecoming or disrespectful is guilty of using unparliamentary language and is open to any disciplinary measure the President may impose. |
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I have to tell them that from reading this, one would think there had been truly unparliamentary behaviour, such as the obscene gestures done from that side on many occasions, as well as the ad hominem heckling. |
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My point is that some words that were volatile and emotionally charged in a certain historical context are less so today and should no longer be considered unparliamentary. |
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If it were not the case, members would be running around finding quotes containing all kinds of unparliamentary phrases and reading them in the House. |
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Chacko also reportedly used his power to edit five of the six dissent notes to redraft the language which, according to him, was unparliamentary. |
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During a press conference today the president of PSAC, and I cannot use the words because they are unparliamentary, said some things of the Treasury Board president that were very uncomplimentary. |
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I will take these matters under advisement and come back to the House with a ruling on whether the terms used by the hon. member for Winnipeg Centre were in fact unparliamentary. |
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This is an unparliamentary and undemocratic method. |
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Attacks are becoming highly personal and highly unparliamentary. |
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That's why we have no notion of what it means to be unparliamentary, or to speak, however sincerely, illegitimately and impoliticly. |
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That is unparliamentary, and therefore should be dropped. |
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It is unparliamentary, Mr. Speaker, and I am glad that you agree. |
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The codification of unparliamentary language has proven impractical as it is the context in which words or phrases are used that the Chair must consider when deciding whether or not they should be withdrawn. |
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Let us go back to the federal system and the assurances-I wanted to use a term that is unparliamentary and I am looking for a synonym-that lack credibility from the Minister of Public Safety. |
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If we are going to have that kind of discussion, we can have it, but I will say to hon. members that it is words that are unparliamentary that are prohibited in the chamber, not misquoting others and so on. |
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Language spoken during a Parliamentary proceeding that impugns the integrity of members would be unparliamentary and a breach of order contrary to the Standing Orders. |
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I can assure them that several of us, especially on this side of the House, care greatly about the people who are experiencing affronts which we could not describe without using unparliamentary language. |
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This display of unparliamentary manners had some justification: two years earlier Mr Menem had denied him a convincing mandate when he withdrew from a run-off election. |
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These pages are concerned less with the jaded cries for electoral reform as such than with the undignified, inefficient, undemocratic and, above all, unparliamentary government that is Britain's lot today. |
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The last issue is unparliamentary because, in that section, the Canadian citizens who have paid GST on a particular commercial transaction, or financial advice, cannot receive a refund. |
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I think the expression is unparliamentary and I hope that the hon. member will retract it immediately in order to put an end to this debate, which is not a debate that should be held in the House. |
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