Montreal MP admits trip to U.S.
Sameer Zuberi, MP for Pierrefonds–Dollard, has fessed up to visiting the U.S. over the holidays, and for penance is giving up various roles on parliamentary committees. Patrizia Lattanzio, MP for St-Leonard-St-Michel, has admitted to going to Ireland in September. Two other Liberal MPs from Quebec have also been on the flit, as mentioned in that CTV piece.
Update: Pierre Arcand of the Quebec Liberals, MNA for Mont-Royal–Outremont, has also lost his shadow cabinet roles after a trip south.
Jack 09:23 on 2021-01-04 Permalink
These two must be doing great work as Liberal backbenchers because I have never heard of either of them.
ant6n 10:15 on 2021-01-04 Permalink
So after vacation the guy comes back and as “punishment” does less work.
dwgs 10:43 on 2021-01-04 Permalink
At this point I’m beginning to wonder if there are any elected officials who haven’t travelled for personal reasons during the pandemic.
Kate 10:56 on 2021-01-04 Permalink
ant6n, if you’re an ambitious political newbie you have to climb by taking on parliamentary committee jobs, so losing them is a setback.
Jack, I’d heard of them only because I made the lists of local MPs and MNAs for the blog sidebar.
Tim S. 19:21 on 2021-01-04 Permalink
I gather that they also like committees because it’s something to do. Being a backbench MP/MNA without any responsibilities is apparently pretty boring and disheartening, and despite the cynicism (me included sometimes) most people who enter politics do hope to accomplish something. The MP exit interviews by Samara on this are pretty interesting and thought-provoking.