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Canada’s ministers are missing critical memos

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The Number of Ministers Missing Memos

In the last five or six months, there have been several instances of ministers missing a memo. One was Defense Minister Harjit Sajan saying that he wasn't reading his emails during the fall of Afghanistan in 2021. And since then, through reporting from Steve Chase and Bob Fife on the foreign interference scandal as well as through the David Johnson report on foreign interference, we've learned that two memos sent to the government by SESIS outlined the targeting of MPs by China. A different memo on the same topic was sent to the Prime Minister's National Security Advisor but also didn't get read for several weeks before it was acted on. The story about Paul Bernardo really hit a nerve with

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