{"id":5066,"date":"2019-08-29T19:14:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T19:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/editionap.ca\/2019\/08\/29\/mp-under-fire-on-ethics-scandal\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T14:23:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:23:03","slug":"mp-under-fire-on-ethics-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refletnews.ca\/en\/politique\/mp-under-fire-on-ethics-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"MP under fire on ethics scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOnly five short months ago, our Liberal MP Francis Drouin shut down the Parliamentary Justice Committee to prevent the former Attorney General, Jody Wilson-Raybould, from testifying on the SNC-Lavalin scandal,\u201d stated Pierre Lemieux, Conservative candidate for the riding, in a letter sent to media in mid-August. \u201cMP Drouin said, \u2018I think I have heard enough\u2019, that there was no coverup and that it was time to move on. 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