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First postelection question period picks up where campaign partisanship left off

Nov 24, 2021 | 2:08 PM

OTTAWA — Members of Parliament are wasting no time plunging back into fractious partisanship.

In the first question period since the Sept. 20 election returned practically the same minority House of Commons, Conservatives got personal while blaming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for skyrocketing inflation.

They accused him of being out of touch with the concerns of average Canadians, repeatedly questioning whether he knows the price of gas, a loaf of bread, lumber or other basic household goods.

At one point, Calgary Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner alluded to Trudeau as a chicken.