In New Brunswick, Liberal MLA Abel LeBlanc was suspended today from the legislature after…well, ok.  Here’s the picture featured on CBC’s online article.  You know decorum in a parliamentary assembly of some sort is getting bad when you see this.

Now, I know this is really bad but if you’ve ever gone to sit in the public galleries at the provincial parliament in Ontario, the National Assembly in Quebec or any of the other provincial legislative bodies in Canada or in the House of Commons in Ottawa, you would understand that this kind of attitude is common place.

The fact that the CBC article details a conservative politician’s exclamation of some kind of horrified realization that LeBlanc just gave the finger is flatly hilarious because the finger is just a gesture.  heckling is so common place that I doubt any semblance of intellectually honest debate in these assemblies is something that ever even existed.

Read more about clowns dressing in suits and ties here.