Manitoba Tory gets one-day suspension from the legislature chamber

By Steve Lambert The Speaker of the Manitoba legislature, Tom Lindsey, tossed a Tory Opposition member from the chamber Monday, warned that other politicians could follow, and laid down a new list of words that will now be forbidden during debates. Lindsey’s latest attempt to restore order follows an often-chaotic spring sitting that has seen heckling reach high levels of volume and, according to Lindsey, increasingly low levels of quality discourse. “Members of the public … feel that what they’re seeing going on in this chamber is terrible, and they’re begging me to do something about it,” Lindsey said, adding that some school teachers have said they don’t like their students witnessing question period during visits to the building. Lindsey ordered Progressive Conservative member Wayne Ewasko to leave the chamber…

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