{"id":38484,"date":"2026-07-09T13:37:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=38484"},"modified":"2026-07-09T13:37:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:37:50","slug":"endorsement-on-house-of-commons-letterhead-a-clerical-error-mps-contend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/endorsement-on-house-of-commons-letterhead-a-clerical-error-mps-contend\/","title":{"rendered":"Endorsement on House of Commons letterhead a \u201cclerical error,\u201d MPs contend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An endorsement of incumbent Aurora mayor Tom Mrakas from local Members of Parliament Sandra Cobena and Costas Menegakis courted controversy over the weekend after their words were first published on House of Commons letterhead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both Members of Parliament say the use of the House of Commons letterhead was a \u201cclerical error\u201d and was rectified \u201cwithin minutes\u201d of Mrakas\u2019 initial post, with the House of Commons logo replaced with Mrakas\u2019 campaign graphic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the endorsement was re-issued without the official House of Commons graphic, social media posts have longevity and this one was quickly screen-grabbed by residents, who called for official action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One such resident raising alarm bells was Leah Taylor Roy, who served MP for Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill until her defeat in the last Federal election by Menegakis, and remains the party\u2019s local candidate of record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a violation of the House of Commons Members bylaws,\u201d she said in a Facebook post. \u201cMPs may endorse candidates personally, but not in their roles as MPs, nor can they use any House of Commons resources, including stationary or any other resources from their office.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor Roy, who has endorsed Ward 5 Councillor John Gallo in Aurora\u2019s Mayoral race, said she \u201ctrusted\u201d the municipal integrity commissioner would be looking into the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was a clerical administrative error from our staffers and it was rectified within minutes,\u201d said Newmarket-Aurora MP Cobena. \u201cSomebody took a screen shot, clearly, and has been pushing it. There\u2019s literally nothing else to it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe inadvertently used the logo,\u201d added Menegakis. \u201cWe made a mistake, so we fixed it right away over three minutes, and it\u2019s over.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cobena noted that their endorsement of Mayor Mrakas was in their capacity as \u201cresidents\u201d \u2013 \u201cnothing official, which is why everything was removed. It should have never gone out. Everything was removed within minutes, and the proper one is out now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Brock Weir
Editor
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An endorsement of incumbent Aurora mayor Tom Mrakas from local Members of Parliament Sandra Cobena and Costas Menegakis courted controversy over the weekend after their words were first published on House of Commons letterhead. Both Members of Parliament say the use of the House of Commons letterhead was a \u201cclerical error\u201d and was rectified \u201cwithin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general_news","category-headline_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-a0I","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 15:16:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38485,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38484\/revisions\/38485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}