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Conservatives, NDP, Liberals distance themselves from House’s Federal Court fight with AG
'While we'll support a motion to waive Parliamentary privilege we don’t believe privilege should have been asserted in the first place,' says PMO communications director Andrew MacDougall.
PARLIAMENT HILL—The majority-governing Conservatives, NDP, and Liberals quickly distanced themselves on Tuesday from an unprecedented decision by House Speaker Andrew Scheer to ask the Federal Court for an order preventing Auditor General Michael Ferguson from releasing his correspondence with House committee clerks about his committee testimony earlier this year on the F-35 fighter jets.
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Conservatives, NDP, Liberals distance themselves from House’s Federal Court fight with AG
'While we'll support a motion to waive Parliamentary privilege we don’t believe privilege should have been asserted in the first place,' says PMO communications director Andrew MacDougall.
PARLIAMENT HILL—The majority-governing Conservatives, NDP, and Liberals quickly distanced themselves on Tuesday from an unprecedented decision by House Speaker Andrew Scheer to ask the Federal Court for an order preventing Auditor General Michael Ferguson from releasing his correspondence with House committee clerks about his committee testimony earlier this year on the F-35 fighter jets.
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