OTTAWA — A federal New Democrat is calling for a parliamentary committee to probe what led a parliamentary secretary to announce that an Irish hip-hop group had been banned from entering Canada. Article content

Jenny Kwan, the NDP MP for Vancouver East, has penned an open letter addressed to the Liberal chair of the parliamentary committee on citizenship and immigration, urging it to look into what she calls “serious procedural and accountability issues” surrounding the Sept. 19 announcement by Liberal MP and parliamentary secretary, Vince Gasparro. Article content

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In a video posted to X, Gasparro announced that, “on behalf of the Government of Canada,” the Irish hip-hop trio, Kneecap, had been banned from entering Canada, saying its members had

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