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For a few weeks in June, concerns ran high on Parliament Hill about unnamed MPs or senators possibly being compromised, perhaps even consciously, by foreign states — fears raised by a startling but opaque report by the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians.

“We cannot and must not remain indifferent in light of such a revelation,” Bloc Quebecois MP Rene Villemure said.

“The allegations that MPs knowingly received help from a foreign government are deeply disturbing,” NDP MP Alastair MacGregor said. “No one with those interests in mind should be sitting in this House of Commons.”

“Members who willingly, knowingly and wittingly assisted a foreign government to the detriment of members of this place and their privileges, as well as the interests of Canada and its people, need to be expelled from the House,” Conservative MP Michael Chong said.

There were loud demands to “name names.”

Four months later, no …

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