OTTAWA - The fall sitting of the House of Commons featured non-confidence votes, plenty of partisan bickering, and very little actual passing of laws. The session that ended Dec. 17 will go down as one of the least productive in ´ºÉ«Ö±²¥ history, and possibly one of the most partisan.
Here's a look at what happened, by the numbers.
Number of sitting days: 56
Number of days of the Conservative filibuster: 48
Number of bills introduced in the House of Commons: 17 (4 government bills, 13 private member's bills)
Number of bills that got royal assent: 3 (supplementary estimates, the GST holiday bill and an amendment to the ´ºÉ«Ö±²¥ Parks Act to change land-use rules for the town of Jasper, Alta., after last summer's devastating wildfire.Â
Number of attempts to bring down the government with a non-confidence motion: 3
Number of confidence motion votes the Liberals survived: 3
Number of times someone said "axe the tax": 303 (an average of 5.4 times per day)
Number of times an MP referred to the "common-sense Conservatives": 183
Number of mentions of "carbon tax Carney," Â the Conservatives' nickname for former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney: 111
Number of times someone talked about what they're doing "on this side of the House": 286
Number of times that was said by the Liberals: 209
Number of mentions of "corporate greed": 42 (NDP said it 29 times)
Number of times an MP declared "I wasn't even thinking about sex": 1
Number of times an MP was chastised for referring to former Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault as "cocaine Randy": 1
This report by ´ºÉ«Ö±²¥was first published Dec. 20, 2024.
