NIST also concluded there were no life-threatening injuries or fatalities following the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7, as most of the occupants had evacuated after the North Tower was struck.

This is not the first time representatives from the Green party have been caught up in the so-called 9/11 Truth movement, which seeks to dispute the official account of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Global News reported earlier this year that Paul Manly, who was elected as MP for Nanaimo-Ladysmith in a May 2019 byelection, appeared on podcasts in 2007 and 2011 where he questioned coverage of the 9/11 attacks, and whether new evidence would reveal a different explanation for the attacks.

Manly, who previously worked as a documentary filmmaker, had also had a film of his screened at a film festival for 9/11 truthers in 2011.

Manly told Global at the time that he is not part of the 9/11 truth movement, and that he was uncomfortable with his film being shown at that 2011 festival.

“I can’t pay to have my films screened at festivals, I don’t have problems with people screening my films. When you are a filmmaker they pay you a licence fee and away you go. Write me a cheque and I’m happy,” he told Global.

“I didn’t have a ton of comfort of having my film at a truther festival.”

Federal Green party leader Elizabeth May, seen here speaking at the University of Waterloo Sept. 17, was criticized in 2014 for presenting a petition in the House of Commons calling for a parliamentary review of the Sept. 11 attacks. | Peter Lee/Waterloo Region Record

In 2014, party leader Elizabeth May was criticized after presenting a petition in the House of Commons “calling on the Government of Canada to conduct a parliamentary review into the events that occurred in the United States on September 11,” according to the Parliament Hansard.

According to reporting by CTV News at the time, the petition asked the government to conduct a parliamentary review of the “omissions and inconsistencies” in the 9/11 Commission Report, including claims of the presence of “nano-thermite composite incendiaries,” which groups like Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth say was used to take down World Trade Center Building 7.

That report, released in 2004 by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, a commission established by the American government to investigate the Sept. 11 attacks, investigated the events leading up to that day.

At the time, May said on her Twitter account that she did not agree with the petition, but that “it is an obligation of an MP to present every petition submitted to them.”

The House of Commons’ procedure and practice guidelines state that while MPs “are not bound to present petitions and cannot be compelled to do so; nevertheless, it is evident that many Members consider it a duty to present to the House petitions brought forward by citizens.”

Shortly before the 2008 federal election, the Green party dropped John Shavluk, the party’s candidate for the Newton-North Delta riding in British Columbia after online comments he had made two years prior came to light.

The posting, in which Shavluk touches on a range of topics from drug laws to 9/11 conspiracy theories, refers to the World Trade Center as the "shoddily built Jewish world bank headquarters."

Shavluk brought a libel suit against the party over a news release announcing his ouster, but the B.C. Supreme Court ruled in the party’s favour.

In her ruling, Judge Carol Ross determined that while the party’s comments were defamatory and couldn’t be defended as fact or fair comment, they did meet the requirements for a responsible communication defence, as the issue was of public interest.