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“There was no way the board members could make any decision or judgment,” he said.

Mr. Duncan suggested that the board was preparing to refer the satellite-office matter to House of Commons administrators for potential legal action and recovery of government funds. That decision has been put on hold while the board considers the new information.

“In the interest of fairness, we have to look at what the NDP has provided,” he said.

Mr. Duncan said he hadn’t seen the new documents but said the party had been asked back in April for lease agreements, seating plans and other information about the satellite offices.

The NDP’s House Leader Peter Julian said the board has become a kangaroo court, and called for its hearings to be held in public.

The documents handed over by the NDP Tuesday were to satisfy the board’s repeated requests for information, Mr. Julian said.

Saskatchewan Conservative MP Randy Hoback, who first wrote to the board to complain about the satellite offices, said he was disappointed that no decision had been reached on the issue but accepted the need to consider all the information before reaching a conclusion.

But he blamed the NDP for providing the information only on the day of the meeting, saying it was part of a pattern of delay. It meant that bringing the board’s seven MPs back to Parliament Hill in the middle of the summer recess was largely a wasted effort.

The board plans to meet again in the next few weeks to render a decision on the satellite offices.