Just a week ago, Thunder Bay M-P Bruce Hyer quit the New Democratic Party to sit in the House of Commons as an independent. According to sources Hyer wants back into the N-D-P caucus. Hyer went out with a blaze of publicity, telling reporters his failure to be named to Mulcair's shadow cabinet showed he was being punished and muzzled for voting with the Conservatives to kill the federal long gun registry.