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In London, Canadian lawmakers Bob Zimmer, Nathaniel Erskine-Smith and Charlie Angus joined the Damian Collins-chaired Parliamentary committee investigating social media disinformation and fake news. On Nov. 27, they heard from Elizabeth Denham, the U.K. Information Commissioner who came from B.C.'s Information and Privacy office. One of her investigation targets is Victoria political agency Aggregate IQ. In Vancouver, suspended Legislature clerk Craig James and sergeant-at-arms Gary Lenz appeared before media at a news conference, professing their innocence amid a mysterious RCMP probe. They hired the Fasken law firm and Peak Communicators crisis communications company. Meanwhile, Plecas issued a statement to defend his right and responsibility to report concerns to police and conduct his own due diligence. "The Legislative Assembly has a right to protect the integrity of the institution," Plecas wrote. In Burnaby, a jury in B.C. Coroner's Court issued five mental health-related recommendations for the RCMP after hearing three days of testimony about the life and death of Sgt. Pierre Lemaitre. Lemaitre was plunged into depression after his superiors refused to let him correct misinformation that they had provided him after the 2007 Taser death of Robert Dziekanski. Walter Kosteckyj, the lawyer for Dziekanski's mother, attended the fact-finding hearings to support Lemaitre's widow.

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