Unparliamentary: Colourful tales from the Canadian Parliament

Podcast: Parliament Matters · Hansard Society

Opublikowano: 2026-08-06

Canada’s Parliament shares its Westminster roots with the UK, but it has developed its own distinctive traditions, procedures and political culture. In this episode, Charlie Feldman – former President of the Canadian Study of Parliament Group and author of Unparliamentary, a collection of stories from the stranger corners of Canadian political history – explains how the federal Parliament in Ottawa reflects its British inheritance while developing a character all of its own. The conversation moves beyond constitutional structures to the parliamentary incidents that never quite make it into procedural textbooks. From fistfights between MPs that left chunks...