Conservatives promise to push Bill C-14 media leak probe in the fall, Liberals try ‘sweep it under the rug’

Conservative MP Blake Richards says the government leaked details of the bill to manage the controversial bill.

The Globe and Mail reporter Laura Stone, Justice Minister Jody-Wilson Raybould, and Conservative MP Andrew Scheer. The House Affairs Committee is studying the question of parliamentary privilege related to the ‘premature disclosure of the contents of Bill C-14’ in an April 12 story Ms. Stone, which was followed by CBC The National’s report that evening.The Hill Times photographs by Jake Wright

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

June 27, 2016

Conservative MP Blake Richards says the Procedure and House Affairs Committee’s study into the question of a breach of parliamentary privilege over an alleged leak to media about the government's assisted dying legislation before it was released “should be the priority” for the committee when...

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