The 95 Liberal MPs who failed to show up to work:
Omar Alghabra, Navdeep Bains, Susan Barnes, Colleen Beaumier, Mauril Bélanger, Don Bell, Carolyn Bennett, Maurizio Bevilacqua, Raymond Bonin, Ken Boshcoff, Scott Brison, Bonnie Brown, Gerry Byrne, John Cannis, Brenda Chamberlain, Raymond Chan, Denis Coderre, Irwin Cotler, Roy Cullen, Rodger Cuzner, Jean-Claude D'Amours, Sukh Dhaliwal, Ruby Dhalla, Stéphane Dion, Ujjal Dosanjh, Ken Dryden, Wayne Easter, Mark Eyking, Raymonde Folco, Hedy Fry, John Godfrey, Ralph Goodale, Albina Guarnieri, Mark Holland, Charles Hubbard, Michael Ignatieff, Marlene Jennings, Susan Kadis, Nancy Karetak-Lindell, Jim Karygiannis, Tina Keeper, Dominic LeBlanc, Derek Lee, Lawrence MacAulay, Gurbax Singh Malhi, John Maloney, Diane Marleau, Keith Martin, Paul Martin, Bill Matthews, John McCallum, David McGuinty, Joseph McGuire, John McKay, Dan McTeague, Maria Minna, Brian Murphy, Shawn Murphy, Anita Neville, Massimo Pacetti, Bernard Patry, Glen Pearson, Marcel Proulx, Yasmin Ratansi, Karen Redman, Geoff Regan, Lucienne Robillard, Pablo Rodriguez, Anthony Rota, Todd Russell, Michael Savage, Francis Scarpaleggia, Andy Scott, Judy Sgro, Mario Silva, Raymond Simard, Scott Simms, Lloyd St. Amand, Brent St. Denis, Paul Steckle, Belinda Stronach, Paul Szabo, Andrew Telegdi, Lui Temelkovski, Robert Thibault, Alan Tonks, Garth Turner, Roger Valley, Joe Volpe, Tom Wappel, Bryon Wilfert, Blair Wilson, Borys Wrzesnewskyj, Paul Zed.
The Canadian Press aptly sums up the day's events: "Liberal MPs held their noses, squirmed in their seats and let the Conservative throne speech pass Wednesday — keeping the minority government alive and averting an election."
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Photo: NDP Leader Jack Layton gestures towards the Liberal benches while standing to vote against the Speech from the Throne, in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa October 24, 2007. Chris Wattie/Reuters
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