Commentary
On June 3, Saskatchewan Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall joined some illustrious—or if you prefer notorious—House of Commons company.
Wagantall became one of only three MPs in the history of our Parliament to be formally barred from crossing the bar of the House. One such predecessor is Louis Riel, who you may recall led two rebellions against Canada and was bounced out twice as an MP before being hanged (justly or unjustly) for treason. A second, Montreal politician Thomas McGreevy, was jailed for a year in 1891 after being convicted of defrauding the federal government while serving as an MP. The third, the communist MP Fred Rose, was imprisoned from 1947 to 1951 for being the ringleader of a gang of 20 spies stealing atomic weapons secrets for the Soviet Union….