Liberals, NDP Block Conservative Effort to Have Prorogation Study Include WE Affair

A crowd gathers before the WE Day red carpet in Toronto on Sept. 20, 2018. Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press

OTTAWA—The Liberals and the NDP have blocked an effort by the Conservatives to get the WE Charity affair probed ahead of a study into why the Liberals prorogued Parliament.

The government must provide a report within 20 sitting days to the Commons procedures and House affairs committee explaining why the August prorogation was necessary.