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The House Of Commons has never been a tea-party. It consists of strong-minded, often very idealistic people, who are trying to accomplish something for our country. We are inheritors of an adversarial system and that, in itself, fosters conflict.

— John Allen Fraser The House Of Commons At Work (1993)

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The very structures, the corridors, the rooms and offices, are eloquent testimony to our past.

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