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HIS LIPS ARE SEALED: When asked whether he has spoken with the Prime Minister about his motion, the 58-year-old Kitchener-Centre MP said conversations with caucus colleagues are confidential. When asked whether he has support within the Conservative caucus generally, he said he has had private conversations with a “variety of people.” At least one Conservative MP, Jeff Watson of Essex, Ont., has publicly supported Mr. Woodsworth.

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HE TWEETS: With 1,331 followers and 4,383 tweets as of Tuesday afternoon, the @WoodworthMP account is an active one. His tweets range from the political (“This is about the illegitimacy of a law or a legal system that declares any human being to be not human”) to the personal (“My wife is calling and I must heed her. Good night to all”) to the humourous (“When life hands you a lemon, bust out the tequila and salt”). He apologized publicly, though, after tweeting this joke: “Cop says to falling down man outside tavern, ‘You’re drunk’ Man replies ‘Thank goodness’ Cop asks ‘Why?’ Drunk: ‘I thought I was crippled!”

HE BELIEVES GOD CALLED HIM TO THE BAR: In 1978, Mr. Woodworth co-founded the Christian Legal Fellowship, whose members are today “working together to proclaim, love, and serve Jesus Christ through all that we do in the practice of law,” according to its website. The site says the fellowship was born “out of the conviction that the vocation of law is a calling from God.” Mr. Woodworth has also referred to the House of Commons as a “sacred place” and “somewhat of a cathedral of democracy,” but says his policy proposals are rooted in “sound evidence” rather than religious conviction.