If you drink Keith’s or 50, chances are you’re an NDP supporter, whereas Liberals gravitate more towards Heineken, according to the National Post’s parliamentary drinking guide.  According to the Post, the Conservative party prefers the upscale Métropolitain Brasserie and and Sir John A. Pub, while the NDP hangs out at Brixton’s Pub so often that they invite its bartender to their Christmas parties.  Meanwhile, the Liberals once staged a takedown of D’Arcy McGees Irish Pub, where it’s not uncommon for parliamentary pages to get hit on by MPs.  “The page program can’t control you at 11 p.m. if you decide to hit D’Arcy McGee’s and get chatted up by an MP,” former page Sarah Govan told Postmedia in 2006.  Wait, aren’t pages college and university students—and most MPs in their 50s?  Creepy!

While the Post lists several downtown hotspots, including Bar La Zone in Gatineau, where the Bloc Quebecois drowned their sorrows after being reduced to rump status in the last election, it makes no mention of Oliver’s Pub, the Carleton campus bar which the NDP’s Deputy Agriculture Critic assistant-managed before being elected.  I guess she no longer gets the employee discount?

And while most Conservatives, from Fearless Leader Stephen Harper to past Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, seem to lay off the sauce, such was not the case for the original Tory leader, whose namesake pub some of them occasionally visit.  As per the Post, “Sir John A. Macdonald, of course, was renowned for his drinking. He vomited during campaign speeches, downed tumblers of gin during parliamentary debates and drunkenly lit his London, England hotel room on fire while hashing out the final terms of British North America.”  And yet, he was never known to pass out in parliament.  Rob Anders, on the other hand…