'Outright hostility' between Wab Kinew, Obby Khan unbecoming of their offices: experts

What should have been a relatively dry committee meeting in the Manitoba Legislature last month descended into a series of "low blows" between political leaders, with Premier Wab Kinew calling Opposition leader Obby Khan a "joke," while the Tory leader repeatedly called the premier a bully.

The heated exchange at an estimates meeting has been denounced as inappropriate behaviour by political experts who have observed Manitoba politics for decades.

They say the episode underscores the acrimony between the governing NDP and the Opposition Progressive Conservatives that derailed legislature business during the recently completed spring sitting.

The NDP threatened during the last week of the session to extend the sitting into the summer if the PCs wouldn't fast-track the government's interp