{"id":30901,"date":"2025-09-16T13:34:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T13:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=30901"},"modified":"2025-09-16T13:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T13:37:03","slug":"standing-ovation-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=30901","title":{"rendered":"Standing ovation WTF&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Court-Painter-Standing-ovation.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Court-Painter-Standing-ovation.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Court-Painter-Standing-ovation-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Court-Painter-Standing-ovation-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-bright-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-986b63eec00cd04419c8f160c0f30dd3 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Court Painter seen puzzling over recent action by Canadian Members of Parliament<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f717cf251cc5deb945a3776dcff63fc6 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#c50f06\">Rachel Gilmore post September 16\/25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Canada\u2019s MPs are back on Parliament Hill \u2014 and they\u2019re already being ridiculous. Following the disturbing murder of <strong>Charlie Kirk,<\/strong> Canada\u2019s MPs took it upon themselves to pay tribute to the man in the House of Commons. Not only did they attempt to rewrite history and paint him as a man entirely dedicated to faith and family, but the remarks from Conservative MP Rachael Thomas <strong>received a standing ovation on both sides of the political aisle<\/strong>. You can oppose political violence without rewriting the legacy of a man who did a lot of harm to vulnerable and marginalized communities. But Canada\u2019s politicians, some media and many employers don\u2019t seem to entirely understand that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c7289e7948b6f36fb5dbecfd9ae86c05 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#c0130a\">Click for video<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Canada&#039;s Parliament just gave Charlie Kirk a standing ovation\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uWmmgFUMubg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-171b9bbd9351b9b57155e62c96063ef8 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#8b120c\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"572\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-16-at-10.30.51-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-16-at-10.30.51-AM.png 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-16-at-10.30.51-AM-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-16-at-10.30.51-AM-768x439.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0b20ce4ecd1510629ab4211531716802 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#9b0d05\"><strong>Liberal government members joined in the standing ovation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court Painter seen puzzling over recent action by Canadian Members of Parliament Rachel Gilmore post September 16\/25 Canada\u2019s MPs are back on Parliament Hill \u2014 and they\u2019re already being ridiculous. Following the disturbing murder of Charlie Kirk, Canada\u2019s MPs took it upon themselves to pay tribute to the man in the House of Commons. Not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=30901\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Standing ovation WTF&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30901"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30913,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30901\/revisions\/30913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}