MPs demand apology from Conservative MP over ‘constant, demeaning’ remarks to Minister Joly
Multiple MPs who are members of the Procedure and House Affairs Committee demanded an apology from Alberta Conservative MP Michael Cooper after a comment he made Thursday about Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly’s toughness.
Liberal and NDP MPs are calling out Conservative MP Michael Cooper over what they described as a “shameful” and “completely unacceptable” comment he made to Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly during a hearing on foreign interference.
Michael J. Cooper, Conservative MP represents the riding of St. Albert—Edmonton, Alberta.
“You’ve talked tough. You’ve talked tough with your Beijing counterpart, so you say. You even stared into his eyes, I’m sure he was very intimidated,” said Cooper in questioning Joly during a combative and intense meeting of the Procedure and House Affairs Committee (PROC) on Thursday.
Responding, Joly said: “Well, Mr. Cooper, you would know China because you went to China as a parliamentarian in the past. And so therefore, I think you would understand that when we fall into too much partisanship, we’re falling into China’s trap.”
Cooper did not apologize before the meeting ended.
Chinese President Xi Jinping reportedly has been silent on the goings on in the Great Dominion, so far!
The Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre suggested to reporters that security officials have been leaking allegations about election interference to the media because they “must be very worried about how the prime minister is working against the interests of his own country and his own people.”
“And so they are so concerned about how the prime minister is acting against Canada’s interest and in favour of a foreign dictatorship’s interests, that they are actually releasing this information publicly,” he said Tuesday.
Prime Minister Trudeau in Wednesday’s question period said it was “despicable” for an MP to question the loyalty of another member of Parliament.
“To suggest that anyone in this house isn’t devoted to serving Canadians, and keeping those who serve Canada in dangerous positions safe, is quite disgusting,” he said Wednesday during a rowdy exchange with the opposition.
The Conservative leader responded that “no drama lesson” would distract him from his questions and, again, pushed for more information about the alleged funding.
The Prime Minister suggested a recently announced special rapporteur and two intelligence agencies are better placed to look into what kind of information was shared with whom.
Excerpted from CBC news report March 8/23
Court Painter cranked out another one in an attempt to capture the moment.
Court Painter has bouts of doubt and bouts of gout. This is a moment of confluence. To mark this occasion, a deep random dive into the full colour archives will suffice to perhaps ease the passage to future productivity for Court Painter in these times of doubt & gout, getting & spending and laying waste.
The World Is Too Much with Us
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers, For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. —Great God! I’d rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.
