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Charlie Feldman
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Fan of legislatures and legislation! Past President, Canadian Study of Parliament Group. Co-Chair, CIAJ Legislative Drafting Section. All views personal and most likely uninformed :)
Greetings from Sintra. No Parliament here. 0 stars.
December 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Dear fellow parliament nerds, I am pleased to report that my book "Unparliamentary" can now be pre-ordered :-)

I'm so excited I might have used some unparliamentary language when they told me :-P utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
Unparliamentary - University of Toronto Press
Tales from Canada’s Colourful Parliamentary Past
utppublishing.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Twas the night before Christmas and all through the House of Commons... one of my favourite Hansard editor's insertions:
December 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Greetings from Portugal - very light turn out for "Bring your Hansard to the beach" day it seems
December 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
On this day in Canadian parliamentary history - December 21, 1967: Justice Minister Trudeau gives a press conference outside the House of Commons on the government’s omnibus criminal law bill. His notable quote? “There is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.”
December 21, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Back to my other December hobby -- applying freedom of information redactions to Christmas carols.

You know ███ and ███ and ███ and ███. ███ and ███ and ███ and ███. But do you recall, the most famous ███ of all?

███ the ███ ███, had a very █ █████
December 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The Hansard factory looks lovely at Christmas 🎄🇬🇧
December 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
It's almost curtains up on "Order! The Erskine May Musical" -- I hear the Speaker role is brilliantly cast :)

Either that or I've misread my ticket..
December 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Love Actually is a serious case of false advertising
December 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Page proofs in my hands!

Brb going to add some typos to see who spots them first :p
December 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Huge changes in the "senior ranks of the public service fantasy league" standings after this 🍿
December 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
To all my Canadian law nerd friends - Happy Vavilov Anniversary! 🎉 I defer to you on how best to celebrate but hope your day will be marked by reasonableness and, where appropriate in limited circumstances, correctness!
December 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
On this day in Canadian parliamentary history - December 18, 1996: A senator raises an issue that has caused many fights around the parliamentary procedure fantasy league table: Does the House need quorum before coming to the Senate for royal assent?
December 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
🎄DYK? The phrase "Christmas Tree Bill" for omnibus legislation in the US is believed to have been popularized by a Time Magazine article (first image) published in 1956. However, reports of senators using a Christmas tree analogy for big bills can be traced back to at least 1930 (remaining images).
December 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Curious if Santa will stop to celebrate 15 years of reaffirmed Canadian citizenship this year 🇨🇦🎅
December 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
On this day in Canadian parliamentary history - December 17, 1952: The House celebrates MP Power on starting his 36th year of service. MP Power replies in part quoting 'an epitaph on the politician' that, I have to admit, I was not expecting...
December 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM
On parliaments with nicknames (from a Canadian paper in 1923)
December 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Rejected parliamentary holiday card messages this year:
~May the red and green of the season remind you of upper and lower houses
~Hoping you gather with friends and family in numbers sufficient to constitute a quorum
~Wishing you and your family peace, joy, order and decorum
December 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
According to my phone - on this day in 2018: The House being dismantled
December 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
For the Astérix & Hansard fans (1999)
December 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
On this day in Canadian parliamentary history - December 15, 1999: Proceedings are slowed with multiple unanimous consent requests to table various documents - if my count is right, there were 37 requests back-to-back and no consent for any of them.
December 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Sharing just for some light -- that time when I introduced my New Zealand parliamentary mace bear to his first Hanukkah. He really liked the latkes... we have that in common!
December 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
How small is Ottawa? I woke up to a selfie from a friend with another friend - the two had never met before. One sat behind the other at the National Arts Centre last night and noticed them looking at something I'd posted on Instagram and then struck up conversation 🤣
December 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Heated Rivalry season two spoiler: This time it's based on 1930s Canadian politics when "lifelong bachelors" William Lyon Mackenzie King and R. B. Bennett switched places as Prime Minister and Opposition Leader and back again. 🍿
December 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
On this day in Canadian parliamentary history - December 13, 1979: Joe Clark's government loses a matter it regards as confidence 139-133. Since the end came rather unexpectedly, the Speaker clarifies he has "not arranged" (nor intends to arrange) for any hospitality.
December 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM