What was it her Liberal peers said about her? . . . oh, yeah:  'Jody is often   
   egocentric'. No kidding?...   
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   CBC News · Posted: Dec 12, 2019   
      
   Jody Wilson-Raybould is refusing to move out of her entire ministerial office   
   suite   
      
   The Commons reserves the space for ministers. Wilson-Raybould calls the   
   dispute 'petty'   
      
   Jody Wilson-Raybould is refusing to vacate the entire suite of Parliament Hill   
   offices she was assigned as a cabinet minister, despite the fact that she is   
   now an Independent MP and is no longer entitled to the space.   
      
   Wilson-Raybould and her small staff currently occupy a series of six offices   
   equipped with a private bathroom on the fourth floor of the Confederation   
   Building in Ottawa — a suite she was assigned when she was a minister and   
   had a larger staff    
   complement.   
      
   Such office suites are in short supply. The Liberals requested the use of the   
   ministerial suite now occupied by Wilson-Raybould for one of their newly   
   appointed ministers. Wilson-Raybould has yet to leave.   
      
   "It seems a little bit petty to me," Wilson-Raybould told CBC News. "It makes   
   no sense to remove me from my MP office. So I don't understand why they're   
   wanting to do it."   
   'I'm just trying to find a reasonable solution'   
      
   Wilson-Raybould moved into these offices in 2018 as the Centre Block was being   
   emptied in preparation for a decade-long renovation.   
      
   She said she disagrees with the description of her offices as a "suite",   
   saying she has the use of two adjacent MP offices without a connecting door.   
   She said she has volunteered to give up one of them as long as she can stay in   
   the other.   
      
   "So I'm not trying to prevent somebody from having been out in the cold   
   without an office. I'm just trying to find a reasonable solution," she said.   
      
   Wilson-Raybould said she invited Algonquin Elder Claudette Commanda to bless   
   the offices after her swearing-in following the October election. She said she   
   had received no "formal notice" at that point that she was required to move   
   out.   
      
   "They are trying to," Wilson-Raybould told CBC News when asked whether Commons   
   administration was trying to move her out of the offices. "But my amazing   
   elder Commanda came and cleansed my office. So I'm hopeful they'll see the   
   appropriate thing to let    
   me stay in my office."   
      
   Parliament Hill offices are reassigned after each election, with priority   
   based on party standings. As an Independent, WIlson-Raybould would be among   
   the last MPs given a chance to choose an office.   
      
   After winning the 2015 election, the Liberals allowed MPs to keep their   
   existing offices where possible. Wilson-Raybould was allowed to stay in the   
   ministerial suite after she resigned from cabinet during the SNC-Lavalin   
   controversy.   
      
   But things have changed since the election. Wilson-Raybould is a non-minister   
   occupying what's classified as a ministerial suite, so the Liberals expect her   
   to move out so that a cabinet member can move in.   
   'I dare them to even consider doing that'   
      
   Sources say Minister of Northern Affairs Dan Vandal is supposed to take over   
   the office from Wilson-Raybould. Vandal is a Métis member of Parliament who   
   represents a Winnipeg riding.   
      
   "We don't know her logic or her rationale," said a senior Liberal source.   
      
   Commanda said the ceremony to cleanse and bless the office also included a   
   prayer for Wilson-Raybould to keep her office space.   
      
   "We prayed for the protection that she will remain in that office space," said   
   Commanda. "She is settled there and that is where the work needs to take place   
   … If anybody expects her to move, that is not right."   
      
   Commanda said Wilson-Raybould wanted to respect the fact Ottawa sits on   
   unceded Algonquin land and she wanted an Algonquin elder to conduct the   
   ceremony to help her prepare for the opening of Parliament.   
      
    "She did the right steps having the ceremony and the prayer so she would be   
   walking in a good way and commencing work in a good way," she said.   
      
   Wilson-Raybould's supporters made the office dispute an issue at last week's   
   meeting of the Assembly of First Nations.   
      
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   "I heard they were going to try to boot you out of your office," said Cheryl   
   Casimer of the First Nations Summit in B.C. during a ceremony honouring   
   Wilson-Raybould.  "I dare them to even consider doing that. That's your space,   
   you created that space,    
   you've earned that space. I'm glad to hear it was blessed."   
      
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   Can we charge her rent on the office?   
      
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