"Justinflation" phrase flagged as against parliamentary rules, but Tories use it anyway

If you always thought that parliamentary politics and debate was a mite puerile, then the quality of the recent discussion in the Canadian federal politics is going to do nothing to dispel that belief. 

All the heckling, guffawing, cries of outrage, cheap shots, ad hominen attacks, and name-calling still continues, just as it does in many another parliament (just have a listen to recordings of the British parliament, for example). But a very specific example of made-in-Canada puerility has taken hold in Conservative circles and is proving hard to police.

Pierre Poilievre (well, it would be him, wouldn't it?) coined what he clearly considers a very clever phrase some time ago, when he called inflation in Canada "Justinflation", suggesting that the inflation we are currently experiencing here was manufactured personally by Justin Trudeau. This is despite the fact that the whole world is experiencing inflation, many countries much worse than in Canada, the fact that such across-the-board economic phenomena cannot possibly be attributable to one individual, however powerful and influential, and the fact that nothing Mr. Poilievre might have done, or have been able to do, would have avoided it. But nobody ever said that party politics was logical or even sensible, did they?

Of course, other Conservative politicians quickly jumped on Poilievre's bandwagon, and started using the "Justinflation" phrase ad nauseam. Tory MP Garnett Genuis (no, that's not Genius) managed to work in "Justinflation" three times in a single speech, so powerful and effective does he consider it.

Problem is, there are some very specific rules in Parliament that the first names of MPs should never be used, and that they should be referred to by each other's official titles (those are just the rules of the game: if you don't like them, don't go into politics). So, House Speaker Anthony Rota has cautioned MPs more than once not to use the phrase, as it contravenes the House rules  - you can imagine the booing and cat-calling that accompanied THAT ruling - lest they be found in contempt of the House.

Nothing daunted, the Conservatives have managed to use it over 100 times since last November. The rest of the Conservative caucus love it and can be seen sniggering approvingly. They seem to think that this kind of petty schoolyard name-calling is effective political discourse. But who do they think it is being effective against? The Liberal Party? The general public (insofar as it is reported in the media)? I really don't know. I think they just do it for their own rather pathetic idea of fun.