Poor vetting no excuse for Anderson meeting, say politicos

'When you end up in a meeting with someone controversial, it’s not an accident,' says former NDP staffer Cameron Holmstrom.

Conservative MPs Colin Carrie, left, Leslyn Lewis, and Dean Allison met with a far-right European parliamentarian last month. Carrie blamed insufficient vetting for the rendezvous.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

March 8, 2023

After a Conservative MP blamed insufficient vetting as the reason he and two colleagues met with a controversial German politician, politicos say the rationale makes little sense given the traditional procedures.

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