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The party’s push to get a parliamentary ethics committee to study why members had contracted Data Sciences Inc., and hear from its founder went nowhere after about five hours of debate on Monday.
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“It’s important for Canadians to know, before we have an election, what their taxpayer money has been going to,” Conservative ethics critic Michael Barrett said Tuesday.
The Globe and Mail reported last month that MPs’ expenditure reports showed most of the Liberal caucus had paid money through their office budgets to the company founded by Tom Pitfield. He is a close childhood friend of Trudeau’s and also served as chief digital strategist for the Liberals in the 2015 and 2019 election campaigns.
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