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By Celeste Percy-Beauregard, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Hamilton Spectator A Conservative MP took to social media to blast his colleagues for failing to show up at a committee meeting this week. But it appears there was no meeting scheduled at all. \u201cWe are here in our room, ready to start a justice committee meeting, but \u2026 we\u2019re the only ones in this room. We don\u2019t have our Liberal chair, we have no Liberal members, we have no Bloc member \u2026\u201d Larry Brock said in a video he posted to X and Facebook on Tuesday. The MP for Brantford\u2014Brant South\u2014Six Nations, along with Roman Baber, Amarjeet Gill and Andrew Lawton \u2014 all fellow Conservatives who are on the committee \u2014 could be seen sitting at a table in what appeared… <\/p>\n

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By Celeste Percy-Beauregard, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Hamilton Spectator A Conservative MP took to social media to blast his colleagues for failing to show up at a committee meeting this week. But it appears there was no meeting scheduled at all. \u201cWe are here in our room, ready to start a justice committee meeting, but \u2026 we\u2019re the only ones in this room. We don\u2019t have our Liberal chair, we have no Liberal members, we have no Bloc member \u2026\u201d Larry Brock said in a video he posted to X and Facebook on Tuesday. The MP for Brantford\u2014Brant South\u2014Six Nations, along with Roman Baber, Amarjeet Gill and Andrew Lawton \u2014 all fellow Conservatives who are on the committee \u2014 could be seen sitting at a table in what appeared... <\/p>\n

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