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Paul Calandra, parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister, on Friday accused the CBC of “lining [the] Brazilian bank account” of reporter Glenn Greenwald after paying him for a Wednesday story claiming that Canada colluded with U.S. intelligence to spy on delegates to the 2010 G20 summit in Toronto.

“When CBC’s The National aired a report about U.S. activities during the G8 and G20, neither Peter Mansbridge nor Greg Weston disclosed that they had paid their source, Glenn Greenwald,” Mr. Calandra told the House of Commons, citing the Wall Street Journal as his source.

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In a Thursday message to Twitter, Wall Street Journal reporter Alistair MacDonald wrote that his paper had received an “admission” from CBC that it paid Mr. Greenwald for access to National Security Agency documents first leaked by Edward Snowden.