Great picture from Canadian Parliament...

[SidDithers]

Senate page fired for anti-Harper protest

A 21-year-old page lost her job Friday after walking onto the Senate floor during the speech from the throne to protest against Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Brigette DePape, a recent University of Ottawa graduate, carried a sign reading "Stop Harper" and walked out in front of Gov. Gen. David Johnston as he read the afternoon speech.

Senate pages are hired for one to two years to work in the upper chamber, providing basic support to the senators during sittings and in committee meetings, which generally means fetching water, photocopying documents and passing messages. They tend to be politically engaged, but this type of protest is unprecedented.

DePape went as far as to prepare a news release, which a friend distributed after she was removed from the Senate chamber by security. The release identified her as Brigette Marcelle, but the Senate website and her email address identify her as Brigette DePape.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/06/03/pol-senate-page.html

That pic was front page of The Toronto Star this morning too.

Good for her.

Sid

[RC]

1. Brigette has a career ahead of her. She has spunk.

She will be back.

[Exultant Democracy]

3. And next time she will be a lot harder to fire.

[MilesColtrane]

2. .

[brooklynite]

4. Sorry, but I can't join the throng of admirers...

Say what you will, about Harper, but he's the duly elected Prime Minister of Canada, and deserves the respect of letting his opinion be heard. Unless you're prepared to stand by Joe Wilson calling President Obama a liar, you'ld better be ready to extend the same courtesies to the other side.

[Kaleko]

5. Well, President Obama *is* a liar,

and a well-documented one at that, so I'll have to give kudos to Joe Wilson and anyone else who's risking huge blow-back for telling the truth.

[MilesColtrane]

6. Your hero wasn't "telling the truth".

Wilson shouted "you lie" after Obama stated that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act would not provide free coverage for illegal immigrants.

[SidDithers]

7. pfffffftt...nt

Sid

[Very_Boring_Name]

9. Agreed

[WildEyedLiberal]

8. There's a THRONE in Canada's parliament chamber?

:rofl: I'm sorry, that's ludicrous.

[1620rock]

10. Hell, I have a throne in my bathroom.

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. k&r