After Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre finished criticizing the Liberal government’s record on immigration and the economy on March 25, something rarely seen in the House of Commons occurred.
Poilievre clapped for Prime Minister Mark Carney, apparently the lone Tory MP to do so.
Poilievre usually asks pointed questions during the daily oral jousts of question period, when opposition parties try to hold the government to account.
It was briefly different on March 25, with Poilievre appearing to share a moment of rapport with Carney.
It was not in relation to Poilievre’s own questions he posed to Carney and the answers he got back from the prime minister, but rather in reaction to questions raised by Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet….