MPs return to Ottawa and the House of Commons Monday after a Christmas break which began on Dec. 12. Back in their ridings, government MPs handed out more than 150 cheques for new highways, curling club improvements, training for the disabled, marina improvements and all sorts of other things. The grand total for all those cheque presentations? $1.5 billion. So, for the sake of the federal treasury if nothing else, let me be the first to welcome the country’s MPs back to the House of Commons.
While they were gone, incidentally, students from Queen’s University moved in to hold their annual Model Parliament. Continue reading Parliament back Monday, Or, "How I Kept Speaker Scheer's chair warm"