(CBC) A controversial statement by Conservative MP Michael Cooper before the Commons justice committee — in which he named the New Zealand mosque shooter and recited passages from his manifesto — will be officially struck from the record.
After a testy exchange, MPs on the Commons justice committee voted 6-0 today in favour of the unusual move to purge Hansard, the official parliamentary record.
Three Conservative members abstained from the vote. One Conservative MP, Michael Barrett, called the Liberal-led manoeuvre a “stunt.”
Committee members already had voted to erase the offending words and referred the matter to the House of Commons. But because the motion to cull Cooper’s statement did not receive unanimous consent from MPs, Liberal MP Randy Boissonnault brought the issue back to committee for another vote.
