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The past 24 hours have been filled with regret for Justin Trudeau. Even before pulling Tory whip Gordon Brown from a crowd of MPs and inadvertently elbowing NDP MP Ruth-Ellen Brosseau, Trudeau had already apologized twice. The first time,to journalists who had been spied on by the RCMP. The second was for a 1914 government decision to turn around a boat filled with immigrants from a B.C. port.And the other three? They were for his own conduct. Here is a rundown of Trudeau’s day of apologies.

Trudeau apologizes for RCMP spying on journalists

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Two La Presse journalists were the subject of an RCMP probe in 2007 after they obtained a leaked CSIS document about a suspected terrorist, CBC reported. The journalists were placed under surveillance for nine days in hopes that they would lead the RCMP officers back to their source so that an arrest could occur.

On his way to a Liberal caucus meeting on Wednesday, Trudeau said he apologized to the journalists.