As not a close follower of the ins and out of day to day politics, but it took about 10 seconds for me to dismiss this guy, once again, as a drama queen. The message after that first impression is basically moot for many people.
Not sure the context that this talk in Q&A in Parliament was taken, but that rehearsed speech had many, including the lady on the left, biting their tongue.
He's trying too hard in this case to make some dramatic moment out of just another day in the year on Parliament hill. Planning out a speech with the facial expressions and pauses for effect, sounded and looked more like some of the nut jobs that used to rant by the stairs in Mac Hall back in the day, many of who (Ezra Levant excluded) were taking theater in school and cared more about practicing the delivery in front of people for their studies than understanding or caring about the political message coming out of their lips.
Say what you want about his dad, of whom he was trying so hard to emulate in this situation, so he could look back and say that this was one of his defining moments...his dad picked much more poignant and crucial times and on larger stages to try and deliver a message like this, and, was natural in his impassioned delivery, not contrived and fabricated as this clearly is.
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