Conservative MP Preston steps aside as House committee probes Tories’ flyers

Some of the government's attack flyers suggesting Grit MP Irwin Cotler is anti-Semitic were sent in Tory MP Joe Preston's name.

The chair of the Commons committee set to investigate government attack flyers suggesting Liberal MP Irwin Cotler is anti-Semitic plans to step aside for those hearings because some of the flyers were distributed under his name.

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