He didn’t yell “you lie” but it was close enough.
Sarnia-Lambton Tory MPP Bob Bailey was the first of three Opposition members to be tossed from the Ontario legislature today after using unparliamentary language in an attack on Premier Dalton McGuinty.
It happened during second-reading debate of the Harmonized Sales Tax bill.
Bailey says he knows you can’t call anyone a liar in the House, and knew he would get ejected for it.
Bailey says he gave vent to his feelings and that his constituents tell him the proposed HST is an unfair tax.
Bailey called on the Premier to hold a series of public hearings on the harmonized tax and referred to McGuinty as a “cowardly liar” for not doing so.
Two other Tories were also thrown out of the chamber as their colleagues tried to disrupt second reading of the HST bill.
Surprisingly — Bruce Grey Owen Sound Progressive Conservative MPP Bill Murdoch was not tossed from the legislature.
Murdoch — known as a renegade — is also opposed to the HST and has been collecting names on a peition against the tax.
McGuinty has said voters can pass judgment on the plan to harmonize the sales taxes in the 2011 provincial election.