Conservative Backbencher of the Year
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By my count, Conservative MP Jacques Gourde has delivered 27 members’ statements so far this year. Fourteen of those were used to attack either New Democrats or Liberals.
From April onward, Mr. Gourde has been particularly single-minded, using 10 of 16 statements to attack the NDP (including one today).