Today the major newspapers here were sporting pictures of Peter Milliken, our newest Speaker of the House of Commons, being dragged up to his seat in the Parliament Buildings by Stephen Harper (the current Prime Minister) and Paul Martin (the former PM).
According to the article here, the ministers “pretended to be dragging a reluctant Milliken to the chair. It is a tradition borrowed from Britain, where speakers of the House once ran the risk of losing their heads to irritated regents.”
There’s a Liberal leadership race joke in here, if I can find it somewhere…