Report Says Tory MPs to Give More Powers to Backbenchers

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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In a report recently published by the Huffington Post, it has alleged that the innumerable instances of Conservative backbenchers being upset with the amount of power exercised by the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister’s Office has finally prompted action. It was reported reported that Chong is an integral part of a group of Tory backbenchers, “which numbers between five and 25 depending on whom you ask,” who have been meeting regularly to discuss these new measures and act on it.

In case these reports are true, this will not be the first time for the Conservative Party’s class of 2011 to have publicly and aggressively responded and confronted the PMO’s leadership. Last year, Saskatchewan MP Brad Trost highlighted the “ironclad” party discipline enforced in Ottawa, complaining that it strangles the spirit of debate and prevents independent thinking. More recently in March this year, Tory MP Mark Warawa again complained to the Speaker, having support of two other Tory MPs, that the Conservatives are not allowing him to make a ‘member’s statement’ in the House.

At the time, a Conservative MP, whose identity was kept a secret, reportedly told CBC News that this had upset several backbenchers. The MP allegedly mentioned that “if our rights continue to be trampled upon, as appears to possibly be happening [with the Warawa motion], at that point MPs are going to have to sit down and decide where their line in the sand is and what to do.”.