Conservative MPs want House of Commons Speaker Greg Fergus to resign after ejecting their leader — and not Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — during a heated debate Tuesday.
The Tories say Fergus did not apply the rules equally during a tense back and forth between Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierrewas kicked out of the chamber after he called Trudeau a "wacko prime minister" and refused Fergus's request to withdraw the remark. His entire caucus eventually left as well in protest. pressed Trudeau to agree to British Columbia's request to amend a Health Canada provision decriminalizing public possession of hard drugs like heroin and fentanyl.
"The Conservative party has never been represented by a more diverse group in this country like we've seen now, and to imply and infer that somehow we are white nationalists or racists, I think is undignified," he told reporters on Wednesday. The Conservative leader ultimately cried censorship and said Fergus was trying to protect the prime minister.Liberals came to Fergus's defence on Tuesday and continued to slam Poilievre's actions and that of his caucus.
"Nobody sent me to Ottawa to storm out of the House of Commons. Some of the comments that I heard coming from Opposition MPs was cheerleading that it was happening, saying 'are you trying to help us with our fundraising. We're going to raise an extra million dollars off this.'", accusing him of courting far-right extremists.
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