When you elect a spoiled infant as Prime Minister, this is what you get

...“The Conservatives on their worst days never tried to stifle democracy the way the Liberals are doing it today,” NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair said during Question Period...

...0:33 – We are now 33 seconds into this drama and it is at this point the prime minister makes his move. His seat is on our left as we look at this view, on the right of the Speaker. Trudeau gets up from his seat and moves toward this group of NDP MPs. Ramsay would later say that, at about this point, Trudeau tells these MPs to “Get the f*** out of the way.” Again: The voting procedure has been delayed by, to be charitable, less than a minute when the PM decides to take this action.

0:40 – Trudeau grabs Brown’s right elbow. As he turns Brown forward, he elbows NDP MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau. The tape clearly shows her in some anguish after she is struck.

0:48 – Liberal MPs stand to applaud their leaders’ action...

See also: Matt Gurney: Canada’s grandstanding Prime Minister turned his beloved cameras against himself

...It was a disgraceful display. A low point in recent Canadian political memory. I accept that the elbow to Ms. Brosseau’s chest was accidental — people bump in a crowd. But why was the Prime Minister in the crowd in the first place? Why did he storm across the House to grab Mr. Brown and drag him bodily forward? How did the leader of our national government get it into his head that that was a good idea, and why did his caucus applaud when he did it?

We’ve heard some explanations. The Prime Minister himself said, during an apology to the House shortly after the incident, that he thought Mr. Brown was “impeded” and wanted to help him along. To call that explanation pathetic is to give it too much credit — Mr. Brown was delayed by less than a minute, the crowd wasn’t blocking his way (he could have walked down the other side of the aisle, which was wide open), and the vote didn’t even require Mr. Brown to take his seat. So scratch the Prime Minister’s explanation...