Tories Continues Boycott of National Security Committee on Winnipeg Laboratory Documents | The Canadian News

There are no Conservative MPs under the newly appointed list of parliamentarians to oversee the security and intelligence community, following the party’s decision to boycott the body.

The government says Liberal MPs Patricia Lattanzio and James Maloney are joining the committee and filling the seats most recently held by Conservatives Leona Alleslev and Rob Morrison.

Conservative leader Erin O’Toole pulled his party’s MPs out of the committee last spring to protest the Liberal government’s refusal to hand over unedited documents related to the dismissal of two scientists from Canada’s highest security laboratory.

In a Dec. 17 letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, O’Toole said the conservative boycott of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of all parties of MPs, known as NSICOP, would continue in the new session of Parliament until the envelopes were removed. is. those documents.

The committee, established in 2017, has the authority to review sensitive activities across the federal government.

It submits classified reports to the Prime Minister, which are later tabled in Parliament in edited form.

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