Mallory Research Grant for the Study of Parliament Canadian Study of Parliament Group Acknowledgements: Thank you to the Canadian Study of Parliament Group and the Mallory Research Grant for making this research possible, to Charlie Feldman for his helpful feedback on an earlier draft, and to Memorial University research assistants in particular Ahmed Hassan Introduction A structural design flaw w. [...] 2 International Women’s Day to proclaim Trudeau as a strong feminist,10 and later another Liberal MP alleging that she was denied being re-nominated as the party’s candidate because she refused to participate in the online cheerleading.11 To what extent do MPs on the government side of the House parrot government messaging? I set about to investigate this further with the help of the James R. [...] To what extent is the social media content that appears to be authored by politicians in fact messaging that was supplied by a central source? A researcher could look at all of the government’s news releases on Day X and examine Liberal MP tweets on Day X, Y and Z to see if they mention the topic and if so to what extent are they parroting. [...] The use of static images appears to have had less uptake than the “plug and play” template that enables and MP or staffer to insert a photograph of the MP. [...] That committee of MPs, chaired by the Speaker, makes regulations about how MPs use House of Commons funds “for the carrying out of parliamentary functions.”20 It would seem that the Board is implicitly satisfied that the communications activities of the governing party’s caucus research bureau, as well as those of opposition bureaus, meet the standard of performing a “parliamentary function” given.
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