Item: That Inexorable Hansard

Digitized page of Canadian Illustrated News for Image No.: 62594
Title:
That Inexorable Hansard
Artist:
Unknown
Date:
1875-03-13
Description:
A cartoon depicting a Member of Parliament who is angry because his constituents read a speech in Hansard that was intended to be confidential
Pagination:
vol.XI, no. 11. 161
Subject:
Date:
1875-03-13
Remark:
Distracted member: "Well, I declare, after all the trouble I took to write out a splendid speech for my constituents to read here, that stupid county paper of theirs publishing it as I spoke it, word for word! The Hansard must have got there before my manuscript!"
Item Number:
1808
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