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Twitter Ruining Canadian Government

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Wed, Nov 18th, 2009 18:00 by capnasty NEWS

Charlie Angus, a Northern Ontario New Democrat, urged Members of Parliament to put the "inane little games away and get down to [the] business of serving their representatives". Mr. Angus said he will approach the chair of the Heritage committee and ask that Twitter be banned "to save politicians from looking like idiots".

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