Dawson ruling puts Parliament in ‘crisis,’ says top expert

MPs wrestle with how to assert control over privilege rights, freedom of speech and code of conduct.

Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson's recent ruling that Liberal MP Robert Thibault cannot ask questions in the House Chamber or Commons committees because of a $2-million libel lawsuit has created a "crisis" in Parliament in which MPs are no longer in charge, says one of the country's leading politi...

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