House Speaker Greg Fergus has ruled that conditions haven’t been met to prioritize the issue of MPs colluding with foreign powers in House of Commons business.
Fergus delivered the ruling in the House on Sept. 23 in response to NDP MP Jenny Kwan raising a question of privilege in June, with regard to the release of a bombshell report by the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP).
The intelligence watchdog’s June 3 report said that some elected officials “began wittingly assisting foreign state actors soon after their election.”
On June 18, Kwan asked the House speaker to determine whether a question of privilege existed, such that MPs would be impeded in conducting their duties….