The Liberals — ever helpful 🙂 — have generously freed up some space on their Web server to host an audio-taped recording of the now infamous “dog” exchange between Liberal MP David McGuinty and Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay.
There is an MP3 audio version of the file and a video version for Windows Media Player.
I suggest the video version. The Liberals have added subtitles. Unless you know exactly what you’re looking for, it’s hard to hear the exchange on the audio file. Environment Minister Rona Ambrose had the floor at the time of the exchange and, under House broadcasting rules, the camera was required to be focused only on her and only her desk microphone would have been ‘hot’. The microphone, then, picking up the exchange would have been hers.
MacKay sits one row forward from Rona and four seats or so to her left. McGuinty is almost straight across the aisle from MacKay but in the fourth row.