Satellite Offices

• NDP optimistic over new development in satellite office legal dispute

  The NDP says it has received a hopeful signal in its legal dispute over former satellite offices in Montreal, Toronto and Quebec City.

  Canada

  May 27, 2016
  
• Trudeau vetoed out-of-court settlement over NDP’s taxpayer-funded satellite offices

  Justin Trudeau has vetoed an out-of-court settlement in the long-running dispute over the NDP's allegedly improper use of parliamentary resources for partisan purposes, The Canadian Press has learned.

  Politics

  Mar 11, 2016
  
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• Reality Check: Conservatives take aim at the NDP’s satellite offices

  The Conservatives released a new ad aimed at the NDP, targeting their alleged misappropriation of taxpayer funds for satellite offices. Are the claims true? Yes, but not entirely.

  Politics

  Jul 31, 2015
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• NDP MPs will have expense claims denied until they pay back disputed funds: Duncan

  New Democrat MPs who are on the hook for $2.7 million for allegedly using parliamentary resources for partisan purposes now face the prospect of having their expense claims denied by the House of Commons.

  Politics

  Jun 30, 2015
• Mulcair: ‘Old-time’ parties won’t have the audacity to hobble ‘surging’ NDP

  The ongoing saga, with the NDP’s use of satellite offices at the centre, is simply the Conservatives and Liberals waging a partisan attack on the high polling official Opposition, says Mulcair.

  Canada

  Jun 14, 2015
• NDP’s awkward position: why negotiate settlement if did nothing wrong?

  New Democrat MPs insist they did nothing wrong when they used parliamentary resources to pay the salaries of employees in satellite party offices.

  Canada

  Feb 4, 2015
• Cost of satellite Conservative ministerial offices soar

  The cost of paying Conservative political staffers working in a network of satellite minister's offices ballooned by 70 per cent during the same years the government was asking departments to tighten their belts.

  Politics

  Sep 18, 2014
• 5 things to know about the NDP satellite offices Commons hearing

  Thomas Mulcair's reaction through hours of grilling on the operations of the NDP's satellite offices, and how he tried to turn the tables on the Tories.

  Canada

  May 15, 2014