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Crunchie bar and Doritos: NDP MP Green shares how he got by during Wednesday’s early-morning House vote

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NDP MP Matthew Green, pictured at a House Access to Information, Privacy, and Ethics Committee meeting on July 23, 2020, was bag deep in some Doritos last week, thanks to an early morning vote on the Liberals' latest pandemic-aid bill. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
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BY PALAK MANGAT
October 5, 2020
Apparently, politicians love their Doritos, the flavoured tortilla chips invented in a Disneyland restaurant in the 1960s, and thanks to a 3 a.m. House of Commons vote Wednesday night on the federal government's latest pandemic-aid bill, Hill watchers got a taste of where NDP MP Matthew

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