The House of Commons question period was disrupted by a loud protest in the visitors’ gallery on Monday. Approximately 200 young protesters chanted slogans to support Bill C-311. Protesters shouted chants including, “I say 311, you say ‘Sign it!’”. Bill C-311, the Climate Change Accountability Act, is an NDP private member’s bill on climate change. It would set strict targets for greenhouse gas emissions and would give government the authority to make regulations to meet these targets. Recently the House of Commons voted to extend the deadline for the review of the bill. Parliamentary security guards removed the demonstrators in small groups to clear the galley. One environmental activist claimed that he was “roughed up” by one of the guards and even remained on the grounds for an interview with CBC’s Power and Politics, despite his bloody facial injuries. Elizabeth May summed up the afternoon claiming that “the youth in the gallery showed more leadership than the MP’s on the floor.”
Source: http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2009/10/26/house-commons-protest-environment.html
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=3662654&Language=e&Mode=1
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