OTTAWA — The Conservatives are demanding House of Commons Speaker Greg Fergus be forced from his chair by next Monday with a non-confidence motion vote on the matter scheduled to take place Tuesday night.
But the motion appears destined to fail as the Liberals and NDP accuse the Conservatives of undermining democracy and its independent institutions.
They insist he is too partisan after several incidents including his decision last month to expel their leader Pierre Poilievre from the House. That came after Poilievre called the prime minister a"wacko" during The most recent move comes a week after the Liberal party uploaded a video to its website that promoted a summer barbecue event featuring Fergus that used partisan language without getting Fergus's consent.
"In baseball three strikes you're out, and we've got the Speaker on three different occasions, or actually this is the fourth occasion, that he has done partisan activities, and given partisan speeches," Bezan said.
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