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Library of Parliament Committee meeting three years overdue
By Shruti Shekar May. 16, 2018
CP's Washington correspondent Alex Panetta is leaving the wire service for an undisclosed new opportunity, and NDP leader Jagmeet Singh lands a spot on the Young Global Leaders list created by the World Economic Forum.
Senator Lucie Moncion, left, and Liberal MP Gagan Sikand, right, co-chairs of the Library of Parliament Committee, say they do not know why the committee has not met since 2015, but it finally got together on May 3 and hope to keep up the new momentum. Photographs courtesy of Senator Moncion and Facebook
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