Liberal leader up to his necktie in trouble
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Liberal Leader Dougald Lamont has been called out in the Manitoba legislature for a second time in less than three years for breaking the dress code.
When Lamont rose to speak on Monday, House Speaker Myrna Driedger immediately cut him off for failing to wear a tie — a no-no for male politicians inside the chamber.
“I’m going to have to point out to the honourable member for St. Boniface that he is not dressed according to the code of the legislature,” she said. “I’m going to have to tell the member that he needs to have a tie to be in the chamber and to be acknowledged.”
Lamont immediately apologized for his faux pas and left the room, returning a few minutes later sporting a red tie.
In October 2018, Lamont changed his pants after being chided for wearing jeans in the legislature when an NDP MLA complained that his informal attire violated the chamber’s dress code.
At that time, Driedger noted the dress code only specifies “contemporary business attire” and does not specifically forbid jeans, but said it was a long-standing practice by previous legislature speakers not to allow them.
Asked about his latest brush with the legislature’s dress code, Lamont replied, “It’s Monday.”
He then joked that the chamber — like certain restaurants — should have a supply of ties on hand to ensure nobody enters without one.
“Or maybe I just need to screw my head on properly and make sure I get a tie before I walk in,” he added.
Lamont also found himself on the wrong side of a Speaker’s ruling Monday afternoon when he rose on “a matter of contempt” over a Progressive Conservative MLA’s recent Facebook post regarding 19 bills the government introduced last fall without revealing their contents.
Driedger said she could not rule on statements made by MLAs outside the chamber.
Radisson MLA James Teitsma had written that the 19 bills “hadn’t even been finalized” when they were introduced in the House.
larry.kusch@freepress.mb.ca