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The corridors of Parliament Hill are awash in blue ties this afternoon as MPs show their support for prostate cancer.

NDP Leader Jack Layton is undergoing treatment for prostate cancer and MPs are showing their support.

Members are no stranger to sporting bits of ribbon on their lapels in support of many causes, but this is the first time that I can remember that MPs have changed their ties.

As Caucus ended this afternoon many came out wearing them.

Liberal MP Justin Trudeau tied his under his white shirt, in what appeared to be akin to an Ascot.

Conservative Senator Carolyn Stewart Olsen sported hers in a loose knot and carried a second in her hand.

Stewart Olsen said she was wearing the tie in "..support of Jack Layton who is fighting this disease that affects so many men."

It can be strange how politicians can switch from being fiercely partisan, to all being on the same team.

One person whose chose not to sport the blue tie was Michael Ignatieff who stuck with his salmon toned stripes.

Now for people who are particular about their ties, these are light and medium blue rep stripe, bend dexter.

The label says they are 100 per cent silk and made in Canada.

For the government's response to the questions of privilege raised earlier this month over its refusal to comply with the order to produce uncensored copies of detainee-related documents requested by the Afghanistan committee last year, that is? 

I wasn't, alas, able to make it the Chamber to witness the opening salvo from Senator Doug Finley on "the erosion of freedom of speech" in Canada, but I did manage to keep one ear tuned to the audio feed, and as soon as it was up, I went straight to the official transcript to find highlights suitable of posting, if only as part of my lonely but relentless campaign to convince the vast majority of my fellow Canadians that the Senate can be every bit as lively as the House of Commons, depending on the day. 

To begin with, Finley's opening speech was filled to overflowing with the colour and flourish for which he has -- actually, come to think of it, never really been known, what with being a shadowy background character until his ascension to the Upper House. 

"Censorship," he intoned to fellow senators in his dulcet Scottish tones, "reared its ugly head" at Ann Coulter's ultimately aborted appearance at the University of Ottawa last week, as "an unruly mob of nearly 1,000 people, some of whom had publicly mused about assaulting her, succeeded in shutting down her lecture after overwhelmed police said they could not guarantee her safety." 

After his introductory remarks had drawn to a applause-generating close, the debate -- yes, as it turned out, there actually was a debate -- got underway. 

One of the first senators to rise during questions and comments was former Chretien chief of staff Percy Downe, who wondered whether, given his impassioned defence of Coulter, Finley believed that the government "has made a mistake by restricting people who want to come to Canada to speak by not allowing them entrance to the country?" 

Finley's response, and Downe's rejoinder, and much much more after the jump:   

As reported by the Telegraph Journal -- and confirmed by CBC --  PMO communications director John Williamson is moving on after just eight months on the job. He's heading back to his home province of New Brunswick to run for the nomination in the soon-to-be-vacated seat currently held by longtime Conservative MP Greg Thompson, who announced that he would be retiring from politics earlier this year. 

It's Wednesday, which means party business takes precedence over parliamentary affairs for the morning. This afternoon, the House kicks off second reading of the budget implementation bill, which I'm almost certainly not going to henceforth refer to as The Jobs and Economic Growth Act, despite the minister-foisted moniker under which it appears on the Order Paper. 

Outside the confines of the Commons, the Afghanistan committee has been promoted back to the A-list, as far as room assignment. No leisurely and very possibly lost-getting trek through the sedate halls of East Block will be required this afternoon -- we're back in Centre Block, and in one of the Big (and Television-Friendly) Rooms to boot! 

So we've been hard at work going through the comments, tweets and emails that have been streaming into the Inside Politics mailboxen since we posted the latest batch of detainee-related documents and invited our readers -- and everyone else -- to take part in our first official crowdsourcing challenge. 

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