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OTTAWA — Even as Liberals in the House of Commons try to move past allegations senior government officials tried to interfere in the criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin, a more thorough public airing of the scandal is looming in the Senate.

An independent senator, Sen. André Pratte, moved Thursday evening to strike a special Senate committee to study the issues raised in the controversy. The committee would have the power to invite testimony from former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould and others.

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“Colleagues, the Senate must address the challenge of the circumstances that have arisen. It must not shirk at this challenge, it must not allow itself to be paralyzed by fear of controversy or failure,” Pratte said on the Senate floor Thursday.

His proposal came two days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kicked Wilson-Raybould and another former minister, Jane Philpott, out of his Liberal caucus for breaking the party’s “trust.”