The Bloc Québécois is demanding Shane Doan be removed as captain of Canada's world championship hockey team, in light of the disparaging comments he allegedly made about French Canadians in 2005.

MP Luc Malo led the attack against Doan on Monday in the House of Commons.

"He has said disrespectful things," said a visibly agitated Malo, waving his finger in the air.

"Quebecers don't feel the team represents them at all."

Doan, a star right-winger with the Phoenix Coyotes, was named Canada's captain on Friday, the day the two-week IIHF men's world hockey championship began in Moscow.

Doan has been embroiled in controversy since he was handed a 10-minute misconduct penalty during a Dec. 13, 2005, game that pitted his Coyotes against the Montreal Canadiens.

Referee Stéphane Auger said Doan verbally abused an official and made culturally insensitive comments against the referees, who were French-Canadian.

On Monday, Conservative MPs in the House of Commons said there is little they can do when it comes to Team Canada's roster.

"The senior men's hockey team selection is a decision of Hockey Canada, not the Government of Canada," said Helena Guergis, the secretary of state for sport.

Bloc MPs aren't the first to target Doan over the 2005 incident.

In the weeks after the controversy erupted, Liberal MP Denis Coderre demanded the Alberta-born Doan be excluded from Canada's hockey team at the February 2006 Olympics in Turin.

Doan, who remained on the Olympic roster, launched a lawsuit against Coderre in 2006 for $250,000, claiming Coderre had falsely accused him of making ethnic slurs.

Coderre responded this month with a countersuit for defamation, demanding $45,000 in damages. Both suits remain in court.

With files from the Canadian Press