Members of Parliament on Thursday wrapped up their last day of work on Parliament Hill, with most expected to spend their six-week holiday break in their home ridings.
Parliament business will resume in Ottawa the morning of Jan. 28.
The fall session, which began with a throne speech on Oct. 16, was dominated by talk of former prime minister Brian Mulroney and his dealings with German-Canadian businessman Karlheinz Schreiber.
On the last day of the fall session, Mulroney broke 12 years of silence and spent more than four hours telling a federal ethics committee why he accepted cash payments from Schreiber in the 1990s and what he did with the money.
The ongoing international climate change conference in Bali was also a hot topic this fall, with the Conservative government getting hammered in daily question periods over their environmental plan, which will not meet the emissions targets that Canada signed on to under the Kyoto Protocol.
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