Opposition blasts Liberals for lack of consultation on security committee

After the Conservative government introduced its anti-terrorism bill last year, the Liberals promised, if elected, that an all-party committee of Parliamentarians would be established to monitor the top-secret activities of national security agencies.

Conservative MP Erin O’Toole, left, pictured with NDP House Leader Nathan Cullen, wrote two letters in the last two months to offer his input in how to establish the country’s first ever committee of Parliamentarians to oversee top-secret national security agencies. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale responded to one of those letters last week. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY ABBAS RANA

May 2, 2016

By not consulting the opposition parties so far in creating Canada’s first all-party committee of parliamentarians to oversee intelligence agencies, the Trudeau government is “hurting the credibility” of a “signature initiative” of its mandate, say opposition MPs. “It hurts it out of t...

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