Canadian Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was booted from the House of Commons for the day on Tuesday after a heated exchange where he refused the House Speaker’s request that he remove from the record his comment calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a “wacko” and “extremist.”
During a question period in the House of Commons, Poilievre described the government’s drug policy as a “wacko policy [pushed] by this wacko prime minister” to the applause of his conservative colleagues. Speaker Greg Fergus of the Liberal Party, however, took exception to Poilievre’s remark and asked him to withdraw it because it was “unparliamentary language.”
“There are a couple of things that are going on here today that are not acceptable,” Fergus said. “And I ask all members, please, to control themselves.”
“I’m going to ask the honorable leader of the opposition to…
