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Breaking: Confidence motion. Well, sort of.

by Paul Wells on Monday, April 28, 2008 12:58pm - 0 Comments

Debate opens tomorrow on this Bloc Québécois motion:

Que la Chambre exprime sa pleine et entière confiance envers Élections Canada et le Commissaire aux élections fédérales.

That this House express its complete confidence in Elections Canada and the Federal Elections Commissioner (Inkless translation — ed.).

OK, OK, I was pulling your leg. It’s not a motion testing Parliament’s confidence in the government. The Tories could be outvoted without facing anything worse than embarrassment. But it will be interesting to see what Tory MPs have to say about all this, non?

Tags: Bloc Québécois, in-and-out, misleading headlines, Parliament

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