Liberals question PMO role in leak by Bruce Campion-Smith

Liberals question PMO role in leak
Ralph Goodale demands to know `who in the government is responsible' for `premeditated slander' against MP Bains

Feb 24, 2007 04:30 AM
bruce campion-smith
ottawa bureau

OTTAWA–"Federal Liberals are questioning whether officials in the Prime Minister's Office are responsible for the "politically convenient" leak of security information that caused a furor in the Commons this week.

The revelation that the father-in-law of Liberal MP Navdeep Bains is reportedly on the RCMP's list of potential witnesses for an investigative hearing into the Air India bombing may have even broken the law, Liberal MP Ralph Goodale said yesterday.

"We have seen here the disclosure of secret security information to personally smear a member of Parliament. Canadians need to know who in the government is responsible," Goodale (Wascana) said in question period.

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