House of Commons Speaker Greg Fergus’s office says a video message played at the recent Ontario Liberal leadership convention was meant as a personal, non-partisan tribute, but he will be “more diligent” in the future to demonstrate his impartiality as the chamber’s top official.
Fergus had been criticized by many Conservative MPs over the course of the weekend for his appearance in a roughly two-minute video tribute to John Fraser, the outgoing interim provincial Liberal leader. In the video, Fergus appears from the Speaker’s chamber and in the traditional robes of his role, speaking in a segment between former provincial Liberal
