That's gotta hurt, privilege version
Government House leader Joan Burke raised a question of privilege in the legislature on Tuesday over comments made by opposition leader Yvonne Jones after the chair of the House management committee - Provincial Conservative member and Speaker - Roger Fitzgerald voted with the other Conservative members of the commission to vote money for the two other parties but deny the Liberals.
Fitzgerald offered no reason for his vote leaving most people to believe he was just following the lead from the government benches.
Burke was stupid to raise the petty partisan issue of the money vote again, let alone ensure the issue got dealt with on Wednesday with opposition house leader Kelvin Parsons giving a pointed one hour speech against the question of privilege.
Fitzgerald ruled against Burke on Thursday.
Maybe he saved Burke's bacon by killing the issue. Maybe he was jammed up with the argument Parsons presented.
Either way, it must have stung both Burke and Fitzgerald when he ruled against the government.
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Have you entertained the notion that it was all just staged to lend the speaker an air of impartiality? Or is that too far-fetched?
That would be an incredibly convoluted way to try and unring a bell.
More to the point though, Roger wouldn't have spent so much time fulminating against the comments only to wind up ruling against Burke if he wanted to appear impartial.
If he wanted to appear impartial, he'd have to do a lot more than he did including voting for the cash in the first place or offering much better excuses for his vote than the ones he offered.
My own take on it is simple.
Burke wanted to start off the session aggressively. They likely figured (and Roger did too) that the opp would roll over and apologise.
Instead they mounted a defence and did so despite efforts to jam them up on research time.
There's a back story to this one but it isn't about making ROger look good.
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