Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals successfully blocked an opposition bid Monday to force one of the party's chief campaign strategists to testify about IT contracts paid for out of the taxpayer-funded budgets of Liberal MPs. "Today, the Trudeau Liberals blocked an investigation into Liberal MPs using taxpayer dollars to subsidize their political operations," said Conservative ethics critic Michael Barrett, who had tabled a motion to call Pitfield to testify. (John Woods/The Canadian Press)"Clearly, there is more to this scheme than the Trudeau Liberals are telling Canadians," Barrett said in a statement. Liberal MPs today accused the Conservatives of going after Pitfield because of his friendship with Trudeau, and of engaging in a "witch hunt." Liberal MPs on the committee accused the Conservatives of using taxpayer resources to collect information for their party's CIMS campaign database.

Source: CBC News July 12, 2021 22:18 UTC