Showdown with the Speaker

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Good Tuesday morning. This is Queen’s Park Observer.

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It was a dramatic scene at the Legislature yesterday for the historic invoking of the notwithstanding clause and revival of third-party election ad spending caps — plus a kerfuffle over RANDY HILLIER’s subpar face-shield — but first, a procedural showdown with the Speaker is percolating.

All the desk-banging, shouts of “shame!” and filibustering from the NDP couldn’t stop the Ford government from overriding the Charter via Bill 307, which cleared third reading 63 to 47, thanks to the PC majority, and received Royal Assent.

One of those filibuster tactics: stall the debate by introducing a 130-plus fleet of unanimous consent motions on a slew of issues they thought the House should instead be dealing with, from long-term care reforms to a PTSD Awareness Day. New Democrats took turns raising points of order, which were shut down by Speaker TED ARNOTT.

Arnott entertained a few points of order — which failed to get unani…