The Parliamentarians-Joe Comartin, MP

Rory J. Koopmans, B. Admin.
#6, 14504-108 Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta T5N 1G8

October XIIIth, MMXIV

Hon. Gordon Dirks, B. Ed., M. Ed.
Minister of Education,
Progressive Conservative, Calgary-Elbow Byelection Candidate As Unelected

Dear Gordon:

Retiring MP, Joe Comartin, MP of the New Democratic opposition finds it incredibly frustrating the lack of decorum in the House Of Commons chamber & the lack of respect that government & opposition MPs show one another when they heckle & berate eachother. Its embarrassing IV any students walking inII watch in the parliamentary public gallery, or watching on tv, or their chosen laptop or other electronic device. Joe also dislikes the fact that cabinet ministers will not answer the questions put to them in the Commons, but be happy to do so to reporters (whom the last I checked are not elected officials) outside the Commons. So Joe expresses this to reporters himself in a "scrum" format or exchange, coincidentally, outside the Commons.

"Its offensive to the role of the stature of Parliament."

 

Number LXXV (75),

 

Rory

 

Source: Joe Comartin, MP, New Democratic, Windsor-Tecumseh.