MPs question PM’s power over upcoming National Security Committee

Liberal MP Rob Oliphant, who chairs the House Public Safety Committee, says he wants more information on the prime minister's authority over the new National Security Committee.
Public Safety and National Security Minister Ralph Goodale and Government House Leader Bardish Chagger testified before the House Public Safety Committee on Nov. 1 on the government's Bill C-22, to create a National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians.
The government’s bill proposing the establishment of a new National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians needs to be amended to give its members more access to information and lessen the prime minister’s ability to interfere, Parliamentarians heard last week. The proposed ...

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