Word: pouliot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roly-poly, voluble Jean François Pouliot loves to talk & talk. Like his father, his grandfather and his great-grandfather before him, he is a member of the House of Commons. He once talked Tory Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett into giving his home town (Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec) a new railroad station. Another time he talked his party (Liberal) into building a dock on an unnavigable stream. In four sessions he addressed Parliament 471 times...
Many a House member agreed. But for Pouliot to say it out loud was a gross breach of Parliamentary rules. Quick to point out the breach was Defense Minister James Layton Ralston, himself a favorite target of Pouliot's interminable tirades. The Deputy Speaker upheld the Minister, ruled that Pouliot must withdraw his words. Pouliot declined. Then he was given the dinner recess to reconsider or be "named" (forced to leave the Chamber...