Mr. Speaker, the member of Parliament for Rosemont has abused his parliamentary privileges in a partisan and non-authorized manner in order to promote and solicit support for the local separatist candidate in the upcoming school board elections.
This member sends letters to his constituents on House of Commons stationery asking them to support the MEMO separatist candidate.
This is not the first time that a member of the Bloc Quebecois abuses his parliamentary privileges. His colleague from Laurier—Sainte-Marie did promotional work for his wife when she ran in a school board election in 1994, again using House of Commons stationery.
The former member for Rosemont had also sent a letter in support of a separatist candidate in a CLSC election.
The abuse of parliamentary privilege has demonstrated once again that the Bloc members in this House have little respect for Canadians, for democracy or for institutions.