It's supposed to be the bastion of sober second thought, but a video making the rounds of the Web suggests Canadian Senators can be as belligerent as the MPs in the sometimes raucous House of Commons.

A YouTube clip aptly titled Senators Behaving Badly shows bickering legislators going toe-to-toe in a June Senate Defence Committee meeting.

Yes, it appears actually having to fight and win an election is no prerequisite to acquiring the hubris needed to cut the microphone off on a political foe or shout like a petulant child.

Watch the exchange for yourself as a miffed Conservative Fabian Manning is told by committee chair, Liberal Colin Kenny, that he can't voice his question. Things really heat up, though, when the microphone of the senator from Newfoundland is cut.

Who says the Canadian Senate is boring?

It's interesting this story would break the very week former Governor General Romeo Leblanc was lauded by members of all political parties and remembered as a good and decent public servant.

However, it's worth noting that Leblanc served in the Canadian Senate for eleven years, working on committees just like this one before being appointed Speaker of the Senate in 1993.

After viewing this spectacle where few come out smelling like a rose, concerned Canadians may do well to also ask: Wherefore art thou, Romeo?

- Ryan Maloney, Yahoo! Canada News

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