Edmonton East MP Peter Goldring has advised his fellow members of Parliament to wear cameras at all times for "risk protection" and to "prevent besmirchment."
The sixty-nine-year-old Conservative MP offers the advice in a statement released to the media late Wednesday afternoon. It seems to have been prompted by the allegations of harassment made recently by two female NDP MPs against two male Liberal MPs, who have since been suspended from their caucus.
"It will not be good enough to simply say that your intentions were honourable and you were just inviting a colleague to your apartment at two in the morning to play a game of Scrabble at the end of a day of playing sports and drinking," Goldring's statement from a parliamentary email address said.
"MPs must learn, as I have from encounters with authority figures in the past, that all do not tell the truth. I now wear ‘protection’ in the form of body-worn video recording equipment. I suggest that others do so too," the statement said.
The sixty-nine-year-old Conservative MP offers the advice in a statement released to the media late Wednesday afternoon. It seems to have been prompted by the allegations of harassment made recently by two female NDP MPs against two male Liberal MPs, who have since been suspended from their caucus.
"It will not be good enough to simply say that your intentions were honourable and you were just inviting a colleague to your apartment at two in the morning to play a game of Scrabble at the end of a day of playing sports and drinking," Goldring's statement from a parliamentary email address said.
"MPs must learn, as I have from encounters with authority figures in the past, that all do not tell the truth. I now wear ‘protection’ in the form of body-worn video recording equipment. I suggest that others do so too," the statement said.
