Canadian MPs take Christmas-themed jabs ahead of the holidays
Global News
Over the last several weeks, self-styled political poets poked partisan fun in the House of Commons with their riffs on the classic 1823 poem 'The Night Before Christmas.'
“Merry Christmas, everybody! Merry Christmas. Are we still allowed to say Merry Christmas in Justin Trudeau’s Canada?”
That’s how Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre greeted his caucus, and the group of reporters and cameras he invited to join them, at a meeting on Dec. 6.
But Poilievre needn’t have feared. “Merry Christmas” was said in the House of Commons many times, many ways (52 times, to be precise) as MPs from all political stripes got into the spirit of the season.
Over the last several weeks, self-styled political poets poked partisan fun in the House of Commons with their riffs on the classic 1823 poem “The Night Before Christmas.”
Conservative MP Garnett Genuis took aim at federal carbon pricing: “‘Twas the night before Christmas when the members across / Doubled down on their plan to keep raising costs / They set out to do it by taxing the carbon / On the hard-working people who do all the farming.”
Liberal MP Darren Fisher’s version took shots at the Conservatives, the NDP, the Bloc Quebecois and even the Speaker, Greg Fergus, who had just apologized to a House committee for making a video that was shown at a partisan event.
“But now it’s time to return to our ridings / And share with our friends the best Christmas tidings / And Mr. Speaker, I know that you’ll hate to see us go / If you think of us over Christmas, please don’t send us a video,” said Fisher. (Fergus replied: “That is very good advice.”)
Don Davies brought his own rhyming couplets that day from the NDP benches, where members were celebrating the government’s announced dental care plans.
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