Flin Flon MLA and The Speaker of the Manitoba legislature, Tom Lindsey addressed the chamber on Monday in the latest attempt to restore order following  an often-chaotic spring sitting that has seen heckling reach high levels of volume and, according to Lindsey, increasingly low levels of quality discourse.

“There’s been an increase in unparliamentary language, spoken in the house, sometimes repeatedly. Members of the public are stopping me on the street and saying you’ve got to do something. We have also heard many comments and concerns from school groups, in the public gallery we’ve had teachers ask our visitor services staff if their group could leave the gallery early because they didn’t want their students to see any more of the proceedings. Some teachers have also told the assembly staff that they do not want to bring their students into the public gallery at all during sessions because they are trying to teach their students to behave respectfully.”

Lindsey has tried to clamp down on heckling repeatedly in recent months to little effect. He issued a new warning Monday that he will now be more likely to eject people for the day if they disregard his orders. He also revealed words that are being added to the list of unparliamentary language forbidden in the chamber. Bigot, racist, misogynist, homophobe and transphobe will join existing banned words such as liar Lindsey said other jurisdictions have already banned the words.