OTTAWA --
The federal Conservatives are ending their boycott of a particular nationwide safety and intelligence committee made up of MPs and senators.
Interim Conservative chief Candice Bergen introduced the reversal this afternoon, saying Tory MPs Michelle Rempel Garner and Rob Morrison will characterize the occasion on the committee.
The transfer got here two months after then-Conservative chief Erin O'Toole stated the official Opposition was boycotting the all-party committee, which was created in 2017 to assessment delicate issues.
O'Toole stated the boycott was to protest the Liberal authorities's refusal handy over unredacted paperwork associated to the firing of two scientists from Canada's highest safety laboratory in Winnipeg.
Bergen as we speak promised the Tories would proceed to press for these paperwork, however stated it was necessary for Conservatives to have a voice and presence on the committee throughout what she described as these "historic occasions."
Bergen additionally introduced she was shaking up her occasion's critic portfolios, with former cupboard minister Ed Quick taking up because the Conservatives' level individual on finance after Pierre Poilievre stepped right down to run for the occasion management.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Feb. 22, 2022.
Interim chief of the Conservative Occasion of Canada Candice Bergen rises throughout Query Interval within the Home of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, Feb. 7, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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