Overheard this week: “It seems the dinosaurs are not extinct.”

Some Conservatives—including Stephen Harper—forgot to use their inside voices this week.

Conservative outbursts over the last seven days have been so outrageous that New Democrat MP Sadia Groguhé remarked in Question Period that “it seems the dinosaurs are not extinct. There are even a few specimens left in the Conservative caucus.”

Conservative MP forced to apologize for racially charged remarks:

"I’m going to put this in terms of colours but it’s not meant to be about race, it makes no sense to pay ‘whities’ to stay home while we bring in brown people to work in these jobs."

– John Williamson, MP at the Manning Conference, March 8, 2015

Jason Kenney’ terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week:

“Defence Minister Jason Kenney has come under fire for his decision to allow the release of photos potentially identifying Canadian special forces in Iraq and his tweeting of a picture he suggested was of Muslim women put in chains by Islamist extremists, but was actually from a religious ceremony.”

– Ottawa Citizen, March 10, 2015

Stephen Harper was quick to remind the House of Commons that Jason Kenney is, in fact, “new in his portfolio” – ouch.

Stephen Harper accuses a over a million Canadian Muslims of having a “culture that is anti-woman”:

“Why would Canadians, contrary to our own values, embrace a practice that is not transparent, that is not open, and frankly is rooted in a culture that is anti-woman.”

– Stephen Harper, House of Commons, March 10, 2015