O'Toole Says National Security Committee Being Used to Cover up Scientists’ Firing

O'Toole Says National Security Committee Being Used to Cover up Scientists’ Firing
Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole speaks at a press conference at the Westin Hotel in Ottawa on June 17, 2021. The Canadian Press/David Kawai
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OTTAWA—Erin O’Toole says Conservatives will no longer participate in a special national security committee because it’s being used to cover up an incident that caused two scientists at Canada’s highest level security laboratory to be fired.

The Conservative leader says his party’s members are withdrawing “effectively immediately” from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians.