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Former Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro, once a political pitbull who defended his party from partisan claims of dirty electoral tricks, has been found guilty of exceeding spending limits during the federal campaign in 2008.
The Elections Canada rules are clear: Anyone convicted of violating the country’s election laws is barred from sitting as an MP and cannot run again for five years. The problem, however, is that the rules don’t outline exactly how a sitting MP can be kicked out of the House of Commons.
If Del Mastro is kicked out, he’ll become the fourth sitting MP forced out of the House since Confederation. The last MP thrown out was in 1947, when Fred Rose was convicted for being a spy.
The famous Metis Leader, Louis Riel, was thrown out of the House twice – in 1874 and 1875, for being a fugitive.
Del Mastro is now an independent MP after Harper forced him out of the caucus for being charged with violating Canada’s election rules.
The Tories, however, won’t immediately kick him out of his job, which they can do, since they have a majority in the House.
Government House Leader Peter Van Loan said the Procedure and House Affairs Committee should “examine the matter and determine what steps should be taken.”
Van Loan said the conviction “raises serious concerns.”
Del Mastro will be sentenced on Nov. 21.
Agencies/Canadajournal
Del needs to do some hard time in prison for sure. Never seen such a bunch of right wing losers belonging to a party who think they are important but are not at all. They are just rotten bunch of low brow villains who steal elections whilst they pretend to be good Christians…its a pity Canadians Christians are too dumb and naive to notice, they voted them in twice, now that’s stupid times two, So easily fooled I think their idiotic holy watery brains are frozen from the extreme cold arctic air that blows on them.