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[iverglas]

Any MP may use a room in the parlt buildings for meetings, celebrations, etc.

I dislike the entire idea of this at least as much as you do. But I dislike that it exists, just like I dislike the idea that any religion and religious doings exist.

We couldn't actually forbid the use of rooms in the parlt buildings for this purpose, and allow an MP to use a room for anything else! Like, say, celebrating international atheism day or what have you. ;)

I imagine that "non-denominational" does mean "regardless of Christian denomination".

I'll try and find out for you whether the "Red Mass" to open the courts at the beginning of the season still happens in Ottawa. Now that one was enough to make you puke -- it wasn't just private people doing their private thing, it was judges doing a public thing as judges. The Ottawa judiciary, bar and police were for a long time very heavily Irish RC, and so this was just one manifestation of their grip on the levers of judicial power. If we're lucky, it's gone the way of the exclusionary, offensive dodo it was.