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Thursday, 19 May 2011
Parliament is a place of symbolism. Today, the Liberal Party caucus said goodbye to Michael Ignatieff in the Railway Committee Room, its last meeting there. Jack Layton's NDP will be meeting there in future, continuing a century old tradition as the place with the Official Opposition Party meets.
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| Railway Committee Room |
The room is so-called because it was the meeting place of the Standing Committee on Railways, Canals and Telegraph Lines, which started life in 1867 and changed its name in 1965. Once the home of our Supreme Court of Canada, the painting The Fathers of Confederation hangs at one end and the Canadian Coat of Arms at the other end.
The NDP have earned their right to this room, having shattered the isolation of Quebec from active participation in our nation's Parliament rather than simply remaining as onlookers, and in so doing the NDP has moulded the contours of our political landscape in ways unthinkable just a short week or two ago. Their victory is a testament to the possibilities of hope and of change in our sprawling young country.
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| The Fathers of Confederation |
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