Ven
03-02-2012, 06:35 PM
Ooops I mean Rob Anders. :D
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2012/03/02/anders-committee-asleep-halifax.html
A Calgary MP who was caught sleeping in the House of Commons during Question Period last year is accused of doing it again.
Conservative Rob Anders slept through much of a veterans affairs committee meeting in Halifax on Tuesday, according to the head of a charity group that was there to make a presentation.
Calgary MP Rob Anders is accused of sleeping during a meeting about homeless veterans in Halifax. (CBC)
Anders arrived fifteen minutes late for the meeting, took a seat at the table and began to stretch and yawn, said Jim Lowther, president of Veterans Emergency Transition Services.
“And I look down again and he’s asleep. Like head bobbing asleep. Almost hitting his head off the table asleep,” said Lowther, whose organization was delivering a talk about its work helping homeless veterans.
The Tory MP slept for at least 20 minutes, Lowther said. “Everyone noticed.”
Anders has not responded to interview requests from CBC News. But he is quoted in other national media reports denying he slept at the meeting.
He also accused Lowther’s organization of being aligned with the opposition, a charge Lowther dismissed as nonsense. “Me personally, I'm a card-carrying card Conservative,” he said.
“If he'd just said, you know what guys I nodded off there. That would have been the end of it,” he said. Lowther said Anders, who is paid to be on the House of Commons committee, should resign.
“I’m sure there are other Conservative MPs that we can get on there that are really engaging and interested,” he said.
Last November a YouTube video of Anders nodding off in the House of Commons became an online sensation.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2012/03/02/anders-committee-asleep-halifax.html
A Calgary MP who was caught sleeping in the House of Commons during Question Period last year is accused of doing it again.
Conservative Rob Anders slept through much of a veterans affairs committee meeting in Halifax on Tuesday, according to the head of a charity group that was there to make a presentation.
Calgary MP Rob Anders is accused of sleeping during a meeting about homeless veterans in Halifax. (CBC)
Anders arrived fifteen minutes late for the meeting, took a seat at the table and began to stretch and yawn, said Jim Lowther, president of Veterans Emergency Transition Services.
“And I look down again and he’s asleep. Like head bobbing asleep. Almost hitting his head off the table asleep,” said Lowther, whose organization was delivering a talk about its work helping homeless veterans.
The Tory MP slept for at least 20 minutes, Lowther said. “Everyone noticed.”
Anders has not responded to interview requests from CBC News. But he is quoted in other national media reports denying he slept at the meeting.
He also accused Lowther’s organization of being aligned with the opposition, a charge Lowther dismissed as nonsense. “Me personally, I'm a card-carrying card Conservative,” he said.
“If he'd just said, you know what guys I nodded off there. That would have been the end of it,” he said. Lowther said Anders, who is paid to be on the House of Commons committee, should resign.
“I’m sure there are other Conservative MPs that we can get on there that are really engaging and interested,” he said.
Last November a YouTube video of Anders nodding off in the House of Commons became an online sensation.