TenPercenterWatch: ... and they all lived happily ever after.

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Remember those prima facie breaches of privilege involving those allegedly over-the-top ten percenters that were dispatched into the ridings of Irwin Cotler and Peter Stoffer under the names of backbench Conservative MPs?


All three opposition parties worked themselves into high dudgeon over what they claimed was an abuse of the House of Commons-funded program, and when the Speaker agreed -- or, at least, found enough evidence that the respective MPs' privileges may have been breached to allow it to be referred to the Procedure and House Affairs committee for further study, there were several stormy sittings, during which the opposition at point threatened to roust the lair of the Conservative Resource Group to find out who was responsible for authoring the flyers in question.


As it turns out, that won't be necessary. From the Seventh Report, which was tabled quietly in the House of Commons earlier today:


"In light of the vote in the House of Commons to end the practice of Members sending mass mailings, known as "ten- percenters", into ridings other than their own, and the subsequent decision of the Board of Internal Economy to limit "ten-percenters" to Members' own ridings, and in light of the apology by the Member from Saskatoon--Wanuskewin in the House of Commons to the Member from Sackville--Eastern Shore, the Committee recommends that the Order of the House adopted March 15, 2010, in relation to the matter of privilege raised by the member for Sackville--Eastern Shore be discharged.

http://www.cbc.ca/politics/insidepolitics/2010/04/tenpercenterwatch-and-they-all-lived-happily-ever-after.html
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We will see if this actually stops. I have gotten dozens of these over the past few years (well, a dozen anyway).