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Assunta Gerretsen, the mother of Liberal MP Mark Gerretsen, pictured here at a House Committee meeting in 2016, recently tested positive for COVID-19 after a cruise vacation. The Hill Times file photograph

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BY NEIL MOSS

March 18, 2020

After returning to Canada following a cruise vacation, Assunta Gerretsen, the mother of Liberal MP Mark Gerretsen, tested positive for COVID-19. Ms. Gerretsen returned to Canada last week. She and her husband, John Gerretsen, a former Ontario MPP a...

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