(Ottawa) The Conservative Party maintained Friday evening that an agreement had been reached concerning the mandate of a public inquiry into foreign interference – information immediately denied by the Liberal Party.
The information released by the Conservative Party shortly after 8 p.m. came at the end of a week during which the opposition party and the Liberals had accused each other of obstructing the search for consensus.
“An agreement on the mandate for a public inquiry has been reached. All the parties have announced the names they suggest for a potential commissioner, ”wrote in a text message a conservative spokesperson, Marion Isabeau-Ringuette.
“The Conservatives will continue to push the Liberals to the wall and push for a public inquiry to be opened as soon as possible,” she added.
A meeting between Liberal Minister Dominic LeBlanc and the parliamentary leaders of the other parties in the House of Commons was held late Friday afternoon. The meeting was “very productive,” wrote the minister’s director of communications, Kelly Ouimet.
But “no agreement has yet been concluded”, she then added in the wake of the Conservative announcement.