A Canadian history of drinking, fighting and puking in Parliament...
And you thought that Parliament was boring!
There are some wild stories from Canada’s Parliament and Charlie Feldman wants you to know about them.
Feldman is the author of Unparliamentary: Tales from Canada’s Colourful Unparliamentary Past.
If you are a history and political nerd like I am, you will enjoy this book and hopefully our conversation.
Detractors like to say that House of Commons decorum has never been worse than it is today, but don’t be so sure. Charlie Feldman is author of the new book, Unparliamentary: Tales from Canada’s Colourful Unparliamentary Past. He joins Brian to recount stories of foul-mouthed, rowdy, drunken and altogether misbehaving MPs and senators from all the way back to Confederation right up to Justin Trudeau’s “elbowgate” that make today’s cohort seem tame by comparison. Along the way, Feldman explodes some fabled stories as myth, surveys a surprising scarcity of sex scandals, and uncovers some things we might have preferred not to know, from the story of the salmon hidden inside an MP’s pants and why feces were once thrown in the House. (Recorded July 14, 2026)