OTTAWA — How many government staffers do you need to polish a veteran Liberal’s “friendly” question for a government minister? The answer, according to internal emails released by the House of Commons’ health committee, is at least 10.
Bloc Québécois MP Denis Trudel, who worked as an actor before being elected to Parliament in 2019, said it’s the friendly questions the government asks itself during question period that he finds too self-congratulatory and “completely ludicrous.”
“Every question period, a Liberal backbencher asks a question to a Liberal minister,” Trudel said in French via a videoconference link. “The Liberal minister then has the audacity to thank the member for their very pertinent question, even though we know very well that the minister wrote the question and the answer is scripted.”
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