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The Liberal government has been forced to apologize after coming clean about concealing nearly $200,000 in contracts awarded to an environmental group.

According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan said he was “deeply sorry” after the omission was discovered by a Conservative MP from Alberta.

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In an Inquiry of Ministry, MP Earl Dreeshen (Red Deer-Mountain View, Alta.) asked for details of contracts awarded to the Calgary-based Pembina Institute from 2017 to 2019. The amount was recorded as “nil” in a statement signed by O’Regan and his department suggested it had “not granted any contracts to the Pembina Institute.”

But the government had, in fact, paid Pembina $182,958 for contracts, in addition to $1.7 million in federal grants.

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Initially, Liberal MP Kevin Lamoureux (Winnipeg North), parliamentary secretary to the Government House Leader, blasted the complaints as being baseless. Later, O’Regan revealed that his staff had, in fact, made an error in not including the contract money.