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OTTAWA – Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is spitting mad about reports that the Prime Minister’s Office played a role in vetting Syrian refugees.

The Conservative government ordered a review of some cases this summer as a result of intelligence reports that warned of possible security threats.

A CTV News report, citing unnamed sources, says the Prime Minister’s Office was actively discouraging the Department of Citizenship and Immigration from accepting Sunni or Shia Muslims.

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Trudeau says the PMO was making sure it could take political advantage of those families that were being accepted, something he calls “disgusting.”

He says a Liberal government would “absolutely not” prioritize religious and ethnic minorities.

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the audit was ordered simply to ensure the most vulnerable were being selected without compromising national security, and insists his staff members were not involved in the selection process.