OTTAWA — Members of Parliament returned to Ottawa on Monday after a weeklong break with no sign of a resolution to the House stalemate, tempers ramped back up, and renewed calls for a Liberal cabinet minister to resign — or be fired.
The House of Commons has been mired in a filibuster for nearly two months now, as the Conservatives demand the government hand over documents to the RCMP in a case of alleged government misspending on a green technology fund. That continued Monday but in question period Conservative attention shifted to Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault, who three days ago apologized for not being more clear about his Indigenous identity.
"I apologize if that particular way of referring to myself — I apologize that it was inaccurate," Boissonnault said at an Edmonton event on Nov. 15. "He said he was Indigenous so he could get grants and contracts that were meant just for Indigenous people. Now, he admits he's not Indigenous at all," said Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre Monday.
"We addressed the fact that that business was never listed as an Indigenous business on the procurement site, and it in fact received no funding from the Government of Canada." "But for others that he may have told mistakenly that he was Indigenous, then yeah could probably be something of value to them."
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