CLARIFICATION: An earlier tweet and headline on this story described Jane Philpott as saying Trudeau had violated the law with his caucus expulsions. She in fact accused the PM of breaching the Parliament of Canada Act. The headline has been updated.
Independent MPs Jane Philpott and Jody Wilson-Raybould vote in the House of Commons on April 9, 2019.
Philpott rose in the House of Commons Tuesday to ask the Speaker of the House of Commons to examine if her rights as a member of Parliament, and those of Wilson-Raybould, were breached by the nature of the expulsions.who shepherded a private member's bill into law in 2015 to give more power to MPs and less to party leaders.
But Philpott said in the House that Trudeau and his office"deprived" Liberal MPs of their rights to vote on those rules at the first caucus meeting on Nov. 5, 2015.that when it comes to recorded votes,"nothing like that ever happens in caucus." Then, the expulsions would only have been approved if a majority of the overall caucus — at least 90 of the 179 Liberal MPs — voted that way in a secret ballot.
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