Booting of NATO group chair prompts new rules for association oversight

The Joint Interparliamentary Council approved a new process to step in when parliamentary associations lose confidence in their leaders.

Conservative MP Leona Alleslev was removed as chair of the Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association after crossing the floor from the Liberals in a controversial Oct. 30 meeting that prompted new rules for when an association chair can be turfed. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY CHARELLE EVELYN

December 12, 2018

After a parliamentary association gathering this fall fell into chaos over a dispute about group leadership, a new procedure has been put in place for ousting the heads of Parliament-funded multi-party associations that Conservative MPs say will prevent the “tyranny” of the majority from runnin...

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