House of Commons, a historic occasion marked by numerous technical glitches, lengthy delays and cameo appearances by some of their kids and even a family dog.The vote was on a Bloc Quebecois sub-amendment to a Conservative amendment to last week’s throne speech, a routine matter that normally would have taken 15 minutes.
House of Commons tests virtual voting ahead of throne speech It was roundly defeated by a vote of 293-33 –with help from one Bloc MP who accidentally voted against his own party’s sub-amendment “due to all the confusion” over voting by videoconference.But it took almost two hours to arrive at that result.Right off the bat, a system failure by Microsoft delayed the vote for about 40 minutes.For the eventual vote, only a.