Heard On The Hill

House Speaker Fergus recuses himself from ruling on question of privilege on PM’s Montana vacation expenses

Plus, Optimum Publishing to host launch of the Mosaic Effect at the 3 Brasseurs on Oct. 25, and University of Toronto professor Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, co-author of Waiting to Inhale: Cannabis Legalization and the Fight for Racial Justice to keynote the Institute for Research on Public Policy's fall lecture in Ottawa on Nov. 8.

Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner, who represents Calgary Nose, Alta., expressed her dismay that the decision by House Speaker Greg Fergus, left, to recuse himself was made public online before members of the House were made aware.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade, Sam Garcia

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

October 23, 2023

New House Speaker Greg Fergus found that there was still some business leftover from his previous role as a parliamentary secretary when he recused himself from a ruling on an Order Paper question that Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner ...

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