(CBC) A Liberal MP wants Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer to strip MP Michael Cooper of his role as deputy justice critic and toss him from the party caucus for berating a Muslim witness at a parliamentary committee last week.
A second Liberal MP said they want part of Cooper’s comments, made while MPs were discussing the dangers of online hate, stricken from the parliamentary record.
Scheer recently dropped Cooper from the justice committee for telling Alberta anti-racism activist Faisal Khan Suri he should “be ashamed” after Suri drew a link between “conservative commentators” and the online history of mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette.
“The evidence from Bissonette’s computer showed he repeatedly sought content about anti-immigrant, alt-right and conservative commentators, mass murderers, U.S. President Donald Trump, and about Muslims, immigrants living in Quebec,” Suri told the committee last week.
