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Speaker slaps Tory wrists over hyper-partisan flyers
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| Last Edited | Monsieur Nov 20, 2009 10:06am |
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| Author | The Canadian Press |
| News Date | Friday, November 20, 2009 04:05:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | OTTAWA — Conservatives received a slap on the wrist Thursday for misrepresenting an opponent in one of many ultra-partisan flyers the party's MPs have been mailing -- at taxpayers' expense -- across the country.
The rebuke from Peter Milliken, Speaker of the House of Commons, is not the first Conservatives have received over their use of MPs' free mailing privileges.
Nor, if Liberals have their way, will it be the last. They lodged another complaint Thursday with the Speaker, alleging their privileges were breached by a Tory flyer that links the Liberals to anti-Semitism.
However, Tory MPs haven't let rebukes in the past stop, or even slow down, the blizzard of flyers, known as ten-per centers, that they've been sending to thousands of households outside their own ridings.
A recent analysis by a Montreal newspaper found Tory MPs issued twice the number of flyers as opposition MPs, at a cost of $6.3 million last year. |
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