OTTAWA -- A Conservative-dominated panel that will help choose the next Supreme Court of Canada justice includes an MP who Elections Canada says should be suspended from Parliament.
Manitoba MP Shelley Glover is one of three Conservatives named to the five-member panel by Justice Minister Rob Nicholson.
Glover is currently engaged in a court battle with Elections Canada over her 2011 campaign expense return.
The elections watchdog took the extraordinary step last month of writing to the House of Commons Speaker saying that Glover and fellow Manitoba Tory James Bezan should lose their voting and other House privileges until their campaign expenses are in order.
Speaker Andrew Scheer has ruled that because Glover and Bezan are fighting Elections Canada in court, he will not suspend them from the Commons -- although he is revisiting his decision after being challenged by the Liberals.
The panel will recommend three candidates to the prime minister and the justice minister, who will choose one to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Morris Fish.
