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GolfNow Ottawa - Tour of Parliament (6:36)
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Join host Lauren Thompson as she travels to Ottawa and gets an all access tour of Parliament, in this web-exclusive extended cut from GolfNow Ottawa.
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-This is gorgeous. -So this is what's called Rotunda of
the Parliament Building. Surrounding the edges of the room right
here, all 13 provinces and territories are represented in the
same place that's sort of the bringing together. It's kind
of the heart of the Parliament Building. Truly 'cause it's
the center where everything stand up from. So right over
here, that is where the House of Commons is. That's
the first house in our Parliamentary System. The second is
the Senate, which is all the way down here exactly
parallel. And then the third part would be right down
in front of us, which is the Library of Parliament.
-Well, shall we check out? -Let's go the House of
Commons first. -House of Commons first -The place is right
here. -Oh, good. Wow. This is incredible. -So the room
where in right now is called the House of Commons
Foyer. And if you look around the walls here, all
these portraits are actually past Prime Ministers of Canada. So
if you check out right over here, that's our first
Prime Minister, the right honorable Sir John A. Macdonald. Now,
he's actually one of the Fathers of Confederations. So he's
very important to us in Canada. -That's interesting. Wow. -Now,
two other Prime Ministers are actually put aside. And they're
right over here. They'll be honorable-- the Right Honorable Sir
Robert Borden and the Right Honorable William Lyon Mackenzie King.
And they're put aside at along the wall. They could
be 'cause they are the chief Prime Ministers who served
during the first and second World War. So if you're
just to the honor the contributions what they made for
Canada during such difficult times. Another interesting fact actually is
the Right Honorable William Lyon Mackenzie King is one of
the longest serving Prime Ministers for 22 years serving as
Prime Minister of Canada. Now, each of these Prime Ministers
was very instrumental in changing and making Canada what it
is today, but they also left us with some very
interesting stories. So, the Right Honorable Pierre Trudeau, if you
look right over here, this staircase is called the Prime
Minister's Staircase because the Prime Minister often walk down there
right before he head into the House of Commons for
the day. Now, [unk] Trudeau likes to do things a
little bit differently. So every morning before he would walk
in here, he actually slide down the railing, plan to
make a grand entrance, and then walk into the House
of Commons. -He's a fun guy. -Yeah. Most definitely. -Oh
my goodness. -Now, another thing he like to do on
his time off, he was very in love with the
Parliament Building. Because we actually come right back to this
space, and he would look up right around the edge
of this room right here, because that's when Eleanor Milne,
the carver of this space was carving the history of
History of Canada Series, which you can see right up
around us. Now, each of these different panels describes a
different moment in Canada's past. Yeah. So this one actually
is often used mostly for what's called the Media'S Room.
So members of Parliament will spend their day inside the
house. And at the end of the day, they'll come
outside these doors, they'll walk right in to this space,
and you will be treated by a frenzy of journalist
who will have cameras flashing, microphones being pushed in to
their faces, and questions are coming from all directions because
all of them wanna know what's been going on in
the House that day and what each member thinks about
what's been going on. It's a very, very important part
of our process. -[unk]. -Now, if you take a look
again, you'll notice where there are chief 3 doors heading
into the House of Commons. Now, each one has a
different meaning. The door over here on the right represents
France, because France had a very important role in the
creation of Canada. The door on the left represents Great
Britain, because Great Britain also had a very important role
in the creation of Canada. And this center door right
here is actually called the Canada Door. If you look
right around the edge of the door, you can see
carved in stones of the different provincial [unk]. Now, you
can also see them right up at the top edge
of this room. There's a huge amount of sculpture in
the building. And if you take a look for a
second just at the stone itself, you'll notice that it's
a very interestingly textured stone. -Yes. -If you feel it,
it's really weird and it doesn't look the same-- I
mean, new 2 places. That's because it's called Tyndall Limestone
from Manitoba, and it was actually all sent over here
by train. But the really interesting thing about it is
it's actually all comprised of sediment. -Wow. -So those comprised
sediment. So in various places in the building, you can
find fossils that have been preserved in the stone. -That's
very interesting. -Yeah. Now, one of the only different parts
of the building is actually different because it's the only
original part of the building that's left to us, which
is the Library of Parliament. So if you wanna go,
we can go over and check out the Library Parliament.
-Why not?
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