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March 20, 2014Honourable Andrew Scheer, M.P.Speaker of the House of CommonsChair, Board of Internal EconomyRoom 224-N, Centre BlockHouse of CommonsOttawa, OntarioK A OA6

Dear Speaker Scheer:

CANADA

I am writing to you in your capacity as Chair of the Board of Internal Economy as a fol low up tomy letter of March 18th in which I expressed our concerns with the NDP office in Montrealwhich houses employees of several NDP Members of Parliament as well as employees from theOffice of the Leader of the Official Opposition / NDP Caucus Research Office .

I would like to draw to the Board's attention, a job posting from the Office of the Leader of theOfficial Opposition / NDP Research Office for an Outreach Officer (Saskatchewan), PermanentFull-Time Position, which is posted on the NDP website. i The job posting states that theemployee will be working in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Applicants are asked to send theirapplications to NDP caucus services at 131 Queen Street; a House of Commons leased buildingin Ottawa.The job description lists a number of responsibilities, including:

Assist Members of Parliament with outreach to their constituents and n organizingoutreach opportunities across Saskatchewan Coordinate with regional st ff to develop strategic outreach plans to assist Members of

Parliament to best represent their constituentsAs you know, the NDP have no MPs elected from Saskatchewan, so it is hard to imagine howthe employee could be assisting MPs with outreach with their constituents in that province.Under the qualifications heading, the job posting states that the candidate for the positionneeds to have experience in outreach, event planning, election or issue based campaigns.Given the context of the NDP having no MPs in Saskatchewan, the qualification that theapplicant needs to have experience working on election campaigns is troubling.

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Any reasonable person who reads this job description may come to the conclusion that the Nis using Parliamentary resources to hire field workers to prepare for the next federal electioncampaign, which would be a clear violation of the Members By-Laws of the Board of InternalEconomy.Additionally, the NDP office in Montreal which houses Parliamentary employees paid by thetaxpayer to support MPs in their Parliamentary duties has been used in the following manner

As the address for an NDP employee in Quebec who organized an NDP recruiting day iMontreal, which was advertised in NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair s utremont RidingAssociation bulletin;ii

As the public riding association address for the Louis-Saint-Laurent,iii La Pointe-de-I Tle,Laurier - Ste-Marie,v and the Pierrefonds--Dollard NDP riding associations;vi

As the location of an NDP election training session;vii As a location that members of the public can drop off membership forms and paymen

to become members ofthe NDP.vExamples are attached.All of this together is a disturbing pattern of possible use of Parliamentary resources for partyactivities.I urge the Board to factor this information into any investigation that it launches on this issueSincerely,

Scott Andrews, M.P.Liberal Issues Advocate and Critic for Open Government and Ethics

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Appendix Biii Appendix Civ Appendix 0v Appendix Evi Appendix Fv Appendix Gviii Appendix H