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NewsAlert: Justin Trudeau to address House of Commons over dust-up
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will address the House of Commons this morning after Wednesday’s dust-up in the parliamentary chamber.
The Prime Minister’s Office says Trudeau is scheduled to speak at 10:40 a.m.
Trudeau touched off a firestorm Wednesday in the House when he pulled Conservative whip Gord Brown through a clutch of New Democrat MPs to hurry up a vote related to doctor-assisted dying.
NDP MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau said Trudeau elbowed her in the chest and that she was forced to leave the House of Commons and miss the vote as a result.
Trudeau apologized Wednesday, calling the encounter an accident.
Speaker Geoff Regan concluded there was a prima facie case that Brosseau’s privileges as an MP had been breached, which means the encounter will be examined by an all-party committee.
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