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Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre was not at Tuesday’s emergency session of the House of Commons because he was at home, awaiting COVID-19 test results.

In a video posted to his Twitter account, Poilievre said he was speaking from his “bunker” in the Carleton countryside south of Ottawa, awaiting the results, but said he had no doubt the test would come back negative.

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Poilievre, 40, added that he was in perfect health aside from being “bored out of my skull and being very disappointed I can’t attend the historic House proceedings.”

The emergency sitting was suspended only moments after it began Tuesday. The legislation was intended to deliver $82 billion in financial aid and tax deferrals to help people and businesses cope with COVID-19 epidemic, but Conservative MPs have denounced it as a power grab,

In his video, Poilievre, who was first elected in 2004, said the bill would grant enormous powers to the Trudeau government to spend, tax and borrow unlimited sums for the next 21 months without parliamentary approval.

“We have made it clear that we won’t allow this power grab to proceed,” said Poilievre, who pledged to continue his opposition by phone, by Skype and by any other means possible.