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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has said he would eject any members of his caucus named in a bombshell NSICOP report warning of “witting” foreign agents in Parliament. As Poilievre said in a Wednesday radio interview, he would “absolutely” dismiss any Conservative MPs found to have “wittingly worked with a foreign government against Canada.”