Manitoba Speaker bars politicians from calling each other racist, transphobic, bigot in legislative chamber (www.cbc.ca)

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[-] a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

The new list adds to a pre-existing rule that MLAs aren't allowed to call each other liars.

Sounds like the speaker is just generally trying to prevent MPs from attacking one another’s character. Makes sense, but I think MPs will just find more creative ways to fling insults at one another

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