Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2019-04-03 16:05:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Erin Weir (Regina\u2014Lewvan, CCF)",
        "fr": "M. Erin Weir (Regina\u2014Lewvan, FCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5847950\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I rise to add to the very same point of privilege.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5847951\" data-originallang=\"en\">The member for <a data-HoCid=\"213919\" href=\"/politicians/michael-chong/\" title=\"Michael Chong\">Wellington\u2014Halton Hills</a> has thoroughly explained how the Parliament of Canada Act applies to expulsion from caucus. The federal NDP leader expelled me from caucus without written notice and without a vote, so that evidence should also be considered in your ruling on this point of privilege.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5847952\" data-originallang=\"en\">The context for my expulsion was that another member of the House suggested that I was involved in some unspecified harassing behaviour. No complaints were ever brought forward against me under the House of Commons anti-harassment policy. No complaints were ever brought forward against me through the NDP staff union. Instead, the federal NDP leader invented his own process and appointed his own investigator.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5847953\" data-originallang=\"en\">It is very important to consider the Parliament of Canada Act in this case. It sets out a clear procedure for expulsion from caucus. Whether that procedure applies in the given caucus is to be determined by a vote of that caucus at its first meeting after the election. No such votes were held by the NDP caucus at its first meeting after the election. In fact, no such votes were held by the NDP caucus at any of its meetings in 2015. We cannot conclude that the federal NDP leader had the unilateral authority to expel me or anyone else from caucus.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5847950\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je souhaite intervenir au sujet de la m\u00eame question de privil\u00e8ge.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5847951\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"213919\" href=\"/politicians/michael-chong/\" title=\"Michael Chong\">Wellington\u2014Halton Hills</a> a expliqu\u00e9 en d\u00e9tail la proc\u00e9dure pr\u00e9vue par la Loi sur le Parlement du Canada en ce qui concerne l'expulsion d'un d\u00e9put\u00e9 de son caucus. Le chef du NPD m'a expuls\u00e9 de mon caucus sans fournir de pr\u00e9avis par \u00e9crit et sans tenir de vote. Vous devriez donc en tenir compte \u00e9galement dans votre d\u00e9cision sur cette question de privil\u00e8ge.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5847952\" data-originallang=\"en\">Dans mon cas, l'expulsion s'est produite lorsqu'une autre d\u00e9put\u00e9e a laiss\u00e9 entendre que j'avais \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans une forme ind\u00e9termin\u00e9e de harc\u00e8lement. Or, aucune plainte n'a \u00e9t\u00e9 port\u00e9e contre moi, ni au titre de la politique anti-harc\u00e8lement de la Chambre des communes ni par l'entremise du syndicat des employ\u00e9s du NPD. Le chef du NPD a plut\u00f4t invent\u00e9 sa propre proc\u00e9dure et nomm\u00e9 son propre enqu\u00eateur.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5847953\" data-originallang=\"en\">Dans le cas qui nous occupe, il est tr\u00e8s important de se pencher sur la Loi sur le Parlement du Canada. Elle \u00e9tablit clairement la proc\u00e9dure \u00e0 suivre pour expulser un d\u00e9put\u00e9 de son caucus. Le caucus en question doit d\u00e9terminer si la mesure s'appliquera en tenant un vote d\u00e8s sa premi\u00e8re r\u00e9union suivant les \u00e9lections. Or, le caucus du NPD n'a tenu aucun vote de cette nature lors de sa premi\u00e8re r\u00e9union suivant les \u00e9lections. D'ailleurs, il ne l'a pas fait du tout pendant ses r\u00e9unions de 2015. On ne peut donc pas conclure que le chef du NPD f\u00e9d\u00e9ral avait le pouvoir de m'expulser ou d'expulser qui que ce soit de fa\u00e7on unilat\u00e9rale.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2019/4/3/erin-weir-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/erin-weir/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4473/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "10552204",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Routine Proceedings",
        "fr": "Affaires Courantes"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Privilege",
        "fr": "Privil\u00e8ge"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Alleged Process Used to Determine Liberal Caucus Membership",
        "fr": "L'all\u00e9gation d'utilisation d'un processus pour d\u00e9terminer l'adh\u00e9sion au caucus lib\u00e9ral"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2019/4/3/",
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    }
}